Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Imagine that your focused mind is like your right hand, and your unfocused mind is like your left. You'll get more done by using both. And it lightens cognitive load. Using only focused effort is like ...

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #4 focuses on making math instruction more relevant to students. The real question students are asking is, “When am I ever going ...

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and better robots. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called ...

Learn how to slow down, challenge assumptions, and pinpoint what’s really going wrong. Corey Phelps, the dean of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, says great problem solvers are hard to find.