Why the global education conversation keeps failing the children who need it most, and what community-driven solutions show us about the path forward There is a child in Northern Nigeria right now who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bat-and-ball problem is famous for eliciting the wrong answer, even from brilliant people. There’s a blindingly simple math ...

The creator runs you through three rapid-fire math problems — 9+2, 5+3, 10-6 — then asks you to think of a number between 5 and 12. If you said 7, you're in the majority and you weren't random at all.

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Cincinnati Public Schools is facing a difficult financial moment. The district is working to close a $58 million budget gap, and district leaders have warned that balancing next year’s budget could ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...