"I am routinely asked questions like, 'What's eight times zero?' Or, 'how many sides does a triangle have?' These are eighth ...

Dr. Tsimerman won one of four Fields Medals, an award for top mathematicians under 40, for his work on the André-Oort ...

Jacob Braach took second place nationally, joining the ranks of only a handful of Montanans who have won country-wide ...

The square on the longest side of a right-angled triangle equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean theorem, we are usually told that a Greek philosopher named ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. The math wars are raging again. In statehouses, school board meetings and academic journals, a familiar ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions is the topic of our blog post today! As an educator deeply passionate about the myriad ways of learning and teaching, I’ve long held a special reverence for Bloom’s Taxonomy ...

This study evaluates the predictive performance of traditional and machine learning-based models in forecasting NFL team winning percentages over a 21-season dataset (2003–2023). Specifically, we ...

A mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an easier way to solve quadratic equations. The mathematician hopes this method will help students avoid memorizing obtuse formulas. His ...