Critics say timed drills aren’t useful and instead provoke math anxiety in many children. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics urges teachers to “avoid” timed tests. But advocates insist ...

Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning to incorporate ...

In a digital era plagued by growing privacy concerns and eroding institutional trust, the power to prove something without ...

OpenAI researchers reveal how their experimental model, devoid of any external aids, powered through hours-long proofs to earn a gold-medal score at the International Math Olympiad—and they discuss th ...

Now that’s starting to change. Over the past few years, mathematicians have used machine learning models to uncover new patterns, invent new conjectures, and find counterexamples to old ones. They’ve ...

Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...

Researchers in the math world argue that algorithms are a useful tool to help students learn math, but need to be coupled with a focus on conceptual understanding.

The proof tool, Lean, lets users turn proofs written in prose into rules and logic for testing. Kevin Buzzard already uses Lean and makes tools for students to better learn proofs.

There is, however, no mathematics education research treating explanatory unification in detail. In this article, we address this issue by illustrating explanatory unification of statements by proofs ...

In “A Divine Language,” Alec Wilkinson writes about the year he spent trying to learn the algebra, geometry and calculus that had confounded him decades before.