We've been studying them for millennia, so how far have we come?

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, ...

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

Math. It’s that five-letter word that still manages to haunt the dreams of both high school sophomores and overworked college students alike. Derivatives, matrices, word problems that somehow involve ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing several months ago, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) struggled to perform basic arithmetic as they calculated $1.58 ...

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Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

San Diego students learn specific problem-solving strategies while completing fun, team-based challenges during a summer course at UC San Diego. More than 5,300 high school students in the San Diego ...