In 2024, the number of students placed in one of UC San Diego’s lowest math courses — Math 2 and Math 3B — increased from 490 ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

There’s arguably no other area in the Nevada budget where governor decisions hold greater sway than over K-12 schools — more ...

Cincinnati Public Schools is facing a difficult financial moment. The district is working to close a $58 million budget gap, ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

M indy Bernhardt teaches criminal justice to undergraduates at Kennesaw State University. In recent years she has found herself grading more easily and expecting less from her students. The reason?

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 ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...