We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

Researchers at two universities designed and tested AI classmates, to help real middle schoolers practice math modeling. The ...

Robust skill-building and reinforcement of key mathematical concepts lie beneath the excitement of these games.

Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together… Read More ...

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U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly ...

When you think of having fun, math may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But there are some math problems that people just can’t seem to get enough of. In the 1980s, 90 percent of people who ...

Bill Rollins Jr., 97, wrote and self-published 'Trisecting an Angle,' to try to share his solution with the world.

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.