For Walnut Grove Elementary School fourth-grader Rohan Ramesh, solving tough problems is part of the fun. That passion ...

Polk County High School students put their math skills to the test on the water Thursday morning during the school’s 7th ...

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

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Chodosh is the winner of the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, which recognizes promising early-career researchers who ...

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Attackers are increasingly abandoning loud, disruptive attacks in favor of long-term, undetected infiltration. To support this shift toward stealth, malware developers are aggressively advancing their ...

Today on the 'Name That Thing' quiz, we will test how much you know about geometric shapes. Here are four types of polygons in the image below. Can you tell what these are called in mathematics? What ...

For centuries, humans believed they held a monopoly on geometric intuition. The ability to recognize structure in a shape – its right angles, symmetry, and parallel lines – was seen as a mark of human ...