When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

A Westdale Middle School math teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after a drug-sniffing dog alerted police to cocaine in a bag on her desk. Virginia Somers, 47, was booked into the parish prison on a ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

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Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. While artificial intelligence has made remarkable gains in mathematics, its well-chronicled shortcomings in ...