NextBigFuture

XAI Grok 4.20 and OpenAI GPT 5.2 Are Solving Significant Previously Unsolved Math Proofs

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working ...
Education Week

Math Teachers and Math Ed. Professors Don’t See Eye to Eye on Best Practices

Hannah Moulton teaches Algebra 1. But before her 9th graders get started on graphing linear functions or solving quadratic equations, she makes sure that they have a much more basic skill down pat.
New York Post

Defense Department calls for major STEM initiative as American math skills pose threat to national security

BOSTON (AP) — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re ...
KQED

Professors Say High School Math Doesn’t Prepare Most Students For Their College Majors

The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus. None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend ...