Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Abstract: Though quite challenging, training a deep neural network for automatically solving Math Word Problems (MWPs) has increasingly attracted attention due to its significance in investigating how ...

A new demo of Google’s Nano Banana Pro has taken social media by storm after a viral post showed the tool accurately reading and recreating handwritten work with exceptional precision. The widely ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

When the digital revolution first hit classrooms in the early 2010s—and more schools began issuing laptops or tablets to students for individual use—online learning seemed to promise a faster, easier ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.