In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

Companies under pressure are slashing benefits like parental leave. But cuts like this can create long-term cultural damage.

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This video features casual street interactions focused on basic math questions. What begins as simple challenges quickly turns into interesting and sometimes unexpected responses. The content ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Let’s be honest – this quiz is very basic. We’re talking simple additions and subtractions, easy fractions, percentages, shapes, angles, and a bit of number logic. All the questions are type-in. If ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...