Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...

A young man lives in Manhattan near a subway express station. He is dating two women: one in Brooklyn; one in the Bronx. To ...

FrontierMath, a new benchmark from Epoch AI, challenges advanced AI systems with complex math problems, revealing how far AI still has to go before achieving true human-level reasoning.

A few straightforward shifts and strategies can help create math classrooms where even the most reticent learners find their ...

For a few months now, the mathematical world has been abuzz. Rumors abound of a new proof, monumental in length and virtually ...

The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconn ...

"We let him work on it a bit before we recognized his deep breaths as he was getting stressed and starting to tear up," Patrick and Kitty told Newsweek.

Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and assistant professor Sarah Eason, both in the Purdue University Department of ...

The scientists developed a version of the GSM8K benchmark, a set of over 8,000 grade-school math word problems that AI models are tested on. Called GSM-Symbolic, Apple tests involved making simple ...

Eleventh grade math achievement for remedial students who had taken ninth ... told me that the district selected open-ended word problems that even a student with low skills could try, but that also ...

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...

Organizers of a Chinese math competition say a vocational school student who finished near the top in the first round was helped by her teacher in violation of the rules.