The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the "doubling the square" problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square, the student doubled the ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...

When GPT-3 burst on the education scene, it caused a flood of reactions, ranging from gleeful to apocalyptic. But more than that, it unlocked money. In 2023, generative AI businesses in the U.S. and ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...