More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

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Welcome to the 21st edition of the Sidney Awards. Every year, I give out extremely nonlucrative prizes, in honor of ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Despite OpenAI's bold claims of widespread improvements, GPT-5.2 feels largely the same as the model it replaces. Google, ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

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A 2025 CAP survey of early career teachers sheds light on the experiences and factors that assisted or hindered their ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...