ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

But it is doable, as recent history has shown. And you don’t have to go back to those times in the 20th century when ...

Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the ...

More students should be taking advanced math.

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

AI makes work faster, but it can also create a dangerous illusion of progress. “Accomplishment hallucination” is what happens ...

CNN's Harry Enten dropped bad news on Democrats, breaking down the simple "math problem" that could keep them from gaining control of the Senate. The post CNN Data Guru Dumps Ice Cold Water on ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent ...

Palm Beach County School District saw improved student performance in English and math across multiple grades. The district ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...