I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...

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 ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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 ...

This story about math standards was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and ...

This lesson explores important mathematical methods used in physics, including spherical coordinates, integral calculations, and practical examples using Python. A helpful guide for students learning ...

How much does it cost to hire a new physician? And how much do we gain? As the academic year moves towards its inexorable end, things are shaking up. Senior residents around the country are starting ...

WESTLAKE, Ohio — There’s a friendly math rivalry between two classrooms unfolding at St. Bernadette Elementary School in Westlake. It’s “Math Madness”. Who knew math could be so competitive. Miss ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

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 ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude. I can tell you the story of how math instruction is failing ...