Students with special needs are often missing out on critical areas of math instruction—especially data processing, statistics and probability—raising concerns about their readiness for real-world ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica—More than 100 primary and secondary school students from institutions across Kingston, St James, and Westmoreland participated in the 2026 Mathematics Problem-Solving Competition ...

March 14 is not just a day when math enthusiasts indulge in delicious pie; it is also recognized globally as International Mathematics Day. This special observance was established by UNESCO in 2020 ...

Abstract: This paper presents an AI-powered system designed to automate and enhance the process of solving mathematical word problems using a reasoning-critic framework. The system extracts contextual ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...