If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through solving it.

An annual tradition dating back to 1931, a landmark holiday event is set to take place in the Big Apple on Wednesday evening, Dec. 3: the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. This year's ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Christmas is coming, and so are the end-of-the-year holiday traditions. One season favorite is watching the Rockefeller tree lighting ceremony in New York City. This year's 75-foot-tall Norway Spruce ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they ...