Even in the freezing air, Romian Crockett stood outside Chalmers STEAM Elementary with a boombox blaring ’90s music. Swaying ...

I appreciate Maria Sullivan's rebuttal to my guest writer column of Jan. 2, 2026, regarding the decision of the Arkansas ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Ashley Sanchez told Newsweek she was baffled by her son’s homework assignment, but she spotted one word that changed ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

An elementary math problem has divided the internet after an easy-looking equation turned out to be anything but simple. Many X users were stumped by the problem 16 ÷ 4 X 4 - 4, posted by ...

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 ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...