A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical ...

Vision problems, particularly nearsightedness, have grown more common among American children. Roughly one in four school-age kids, or 25%, wear glasses or contacts, a proportion that increases as ...

If you’re a Star Trek fan, chances are that you watch Red Letter Media, the channel that deconstructs the worst films in the ...

Producers also bear some of the burden of the gas tax. Academic studies suggest that producers pass through around 80% of the gas tax. This means that if a state suspends a 25-cent-per-gallon gas tax, ...

Instead of prioritizing academic excellence, too many teachers, with the support of their principals, are pushing political ...

AI stuns researchers by solving a 20-year-old mathematical challenge with near-human reasoning, marking a breakthrough in artificial intelligence and raising new questions about the future of human ...

AI systems have leapt from failing high school math to solving research-level problems and formalizing Fields Medal-winning proofs — and mathematicians are divided on what it means for the future of ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

The Hardest Math Problem Contest is an annual competition that challenges students in grades 6-8 to solve multistep, grade-appropriate math problems with real-world situations and engaging characters.

In today’s post, I am sharing this carefully curated list of creative and engaging math bulletin board ideas. These ideas are designed to make math concepts more accessible and enjoyable for students, ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. But new research I led found that difficulties with advanced topics often stem from earlier gaps in ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...