Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

Mathematics has been the broccoli of school subjects for generations of Australian teenagers. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Often pushed aside, dreaded, or even ...

We were teetering on the brink of frustration. Anthony sat hunched over our kitchen island, pencil in hand, peering at the figures and word problems spread out before him. I stood near-by, at a loss ...

We were teetering on the brink of frustration. Anthony sat hunched over our kitchen island, pencil in hand, peering at the figures and word problems spread out before him. I stood nearby, at a loss at ...

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past. By Steve Lohr In the school year that ended recently, one class of learners stood out as a seeming puzzle.

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude.

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