Modern math problems don’t tend to have the kind of answers that trip off the tongue. Perhaps it’s a brand-new proof that takes a few pages’ worth of words and diagrams to explain properly, or an ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence more adaptable than ever before, but that comes with a drawback: lies. Generative AI tends to make things up, but ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Looking for some math problem-solving activities for middle school? Good, you’re at the right page then. Right before children enter Middle School (around the age of 11 or 12), they enter a critical ...

A diagram showing the relevant complexity classes in the P vs NP problem. “P” problems are solvable in polynomial time; “NP” problems might be solvable in polynomial time, and are checkable in ...

Get ready for a math problem that will blow your mind as the solution unfolds step by step. This video challenges intuition, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An unsolved 160-year-old math problem may finally have a solution — but critics are wary. Michael ...

A simple looking grade-school math problem has stumped the masses. Can you solve it correctly? The simple equation shared by @BholanathDutta on X this week, who regularly posts brainteasers, read ...

Getting students to talk about their thinking process in math can give teachers insight into where they need help. But it’s also a potentially powerful equity strategy, experts say. And as teachers ...

Are you smarter than a prospective University of Oxford math student? Have a look at a tough problem from the Oxford application and see how you do. As an elite global university, Oxford has been ...