Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be ...

A new study combines Large Language Models and behavioral mathematics to analyze human decision-making text data at scale.

The Illinois State Board of Education formally adopted a plan Wednesday aimed at improving math instruction and boosting student math scores throughout the state. The Illinois Comprehensive Numeracy ...

A bill aimed at revamping Ohio's K-12 math education at a time when many Ohio students are falling behind in the subject may become law after passing the Ohio House on June 9. On June 9, an amended ...

I’ll be honest: when the Shein–Everlane news broke, my first reaction wasn’t shock. It was recognition. Industry coverage framed the deal as Shein buying a reputational bridge into Western markets.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

More than 600 University of California faculty members, led by mathematicians at UC Berkeley, are calling on the system to reinstate standardized testing as part of its admission process, the Los ...

Students’ families shouldn’t have to fight for what they already have a right to: an educational experience that promotes both academic success and health. Yet this basic truth is being actively ...