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A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

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Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

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A South Korean mathematician has solved a geometry puzzle that baffled experts in the field for nearly six decades.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at least fifteen tightly documented geometric and astronomical puzzles embedded ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that ...