Blending algebra and geometry courses can give students more room in their schedules to take other courses like data science or statistics, concepts that are very present in people’s everyday lives.

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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 ...

👉 Learn how to solve equations from word problems. A word problem is a real-world simulation of a mathematics principle. We can solve equation(s) from a word problem by first understanding what the ...

Welcome to The Playfield, a weekly column about the games we’re currently playing here at The A.V. Club. Every Saturday our games writers Garrett Martin and Elijah Gonzalez will look at whatever ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

Math jokes are the topic of our blog post today! We’ve all been there, staring down a complex equation, scratching our heads over a tricky word problem, or just slogging through the academic ritual ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...