West Valley School eighth-grader Sawyer Schneider rounded off the state Montana Mathcounts competition with a ticket to nationals in May. Ranking third out of 65 at the state competition held at ...

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 ...

As impressive as AI models can appear today, rigorous benchmarks show that we still have them beat when it comes to math.

Your guides to the weird side of the web explain the Monty Hall problem and the math of probability.

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Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, tapped two undergraduate students to verify his ...

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 ...

A Polish mathematician who once described artificial intelligence as “a very advanced calculator” has been left stunned after an AI model managed to solve a research-level mathematics problem he spent ...

Let’s keep things simple – this is basic math. Nothing scary. Just everyday calculations, a bit of geometry, some number patterns, and the kind of stuff you definitely learned in school at some point.