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When Victoria Beckham revealed she suffers from dyscalculia, she brought attention to an often undiagnosed math learning disability.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

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The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

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 ...

Scientists at Cambridge University and Jerusalem's Hebrew University selected the problem to pose to ChatGPT because of its non-obvious solution. Since Plato's writing 2,400 years ago, scholars have ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...

How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...