A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Current AI models struggle to solve research-level math problems, with the most advanced AI systems we have today solving just 2% of the hundreds of challenges faced. When you purchase through links ...

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A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI world because it contains hundreds of expert-level problems that ...

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The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...