Solve the math puzzle from our February 2026 issue, where we plan a return passage for a robotic explorer that doesn’t want ...

Mathematician Johannes Schmitt reports that GPT-5 has independently solved an open mathematical problem for the first time. The resulting paper clearly documents the collaboration between humans and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Stanley Jerry Farlow, the author of numerous mathematics textbooks and short story books, retired from teaching right here at the University of Maine in 2014. A Black Bear myself, I was enthralled ...

At the beginning of my teaching career as a middle school math teacher, test prep days were dreadful. Students would write down what I was writing on their review that hadn’t been touched since they ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...