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Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Abstract: Dynamic environments pose great challenges for expensive optimization problems, as the objective functions of these problems change over time and thus require remarkable computational ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

An experimental study conducted in Brazil found that a game-based cognitive training program called Cucca Curiosa improved executive functioning and mathematics performance in children aged 7 to 10 ...

Use Math Progress to personalize math instruction, engage students, and identify learning gaps. Explore the educator’s guide to Math Progress. Many students face challenges in building confidence with ...