Algebra 1 in eighth grade is a gateway to higher level math, yet 1 in 4 schools in New York state don’t offer it, a new ...

The 2026 Digital SAT Math section is adaptive, calculator-friendly, and heavily weighted toward algebra and advanced math. Success depends on mastering high-value domains, using tools like Desmos ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

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 ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Pro has solved an open mathematical problem that human researchers could not crack since 2019, according to independent verification by Epoch AI. Contributed by mathematicians Will ...

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary school-level math equation posted on X (formerly Twitter) is. Over the weekend, ...

AI systems have leapt from failing high school math to solving research-level problems and formalizing Fields Medal-winning proofs — and mathematicians are divided on what it means for the future of ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...