Warp drive has moved a little farther out of science fiction and a little deeper into physics. A new round of theoretical ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

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 ...

National group cites 4 pillars to math education for young kids. A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for ...

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

To understand why, the team looked at the MRI scans.

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

Recent studies show that the less likely someone is to use procedural solutions, the better they tend to be at more abstract problem-solving—and gender is a significant predictor. In a new study, ...