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UC San Diego is trying to solve a remedial math problem

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

AI program plays the long game to solve decades-old math problems

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM supercomputer famously beat the then world chess ...

Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes

However, girls tend to be more diligent in elementary school and get better grades in math class throughout their schooling. And girls and boys across the grades tend to score similarly on state math ...

Curing ‘math anxiety’? How Hurricane High is helping math students move beyond fears and build lifelong problem-solving skills

A nontraditional teaching strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow classmates.
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
Geeky Gadgets

Mathematicians Stunned as OpenAI o3-mini Answers World’s Hardest Math Problems

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...
Education Week

The Best Ways to Teach Word Problems So All Students Understand

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...
Geeky Gadgets

ChatGPT 5 Pro Solves Math Problem Experts Couldn’t Crack for Decades

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...
Science Daily

Study shows addressing working memory can help students with math difficulty improve word problem-solving skills

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

5 Ways Learning Math Improves Performance in Other Subjects: The Hidden Superpowers of Numbers

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and ...

If You Can Solve These 24 SAT Math Problems, Your Logic Skills Are Top-Tier

Test your SAT math knowledge with this quiz. This challenge is inspired by the SAT-style math, designed to test your ...
The Hechinger Report

The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...