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

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

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

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

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

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 ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

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

From writing essays to coding, there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly ...

California's new math instruction framework may look unfamiliar to parents, but once parents understand the family- and ...

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

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...