This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.

A Chinese research team has reportedly used artificial intelligence to crack a long-standing mathematical problem first proposed by an American scholar more than a decade ago. The conjecture, ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Pro model has apparently solved Erdős open math problem #1196. The model reportedly found the solution in about 80 minutes and prepared it as a LaTeX paper in another 30. Formal ...

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A Chinese artificial intelligence system has solved a decade-old problem proposed by an American mathematician, according to a new study. The algebra conjecture was first posed in 2014 by then ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence system has successfully solved a decade-old algebra conjecture, originally proposed by American mathematician Dan Anderson in 2014. Developed by a Peking University ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...