Your current spending isn't just reflective of how you live now; it can be a predictor of how much money you'll need in ...

This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

In March this year, the Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara found out over a Zoom call that he had been awarded the Abel Prize, one of mathematics’ highest honours, for “his fundamental ...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

Explaining the right way to work out, simple and fun.

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

A problem in a child's workbook has gone viral after the bewildered parents shared it to Reddit and asked the internet for ...

The Trump administration will fund the food stamp program more than initially planned, thanks to a fact-check on its math.

The numbers did not compute. Even before Terry Rozier dropped out of the 2023 NBA game in which he's accused of rigging his statistics, computers at an "integrity monitor" firm flagged a flood of bets ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day ...