When Jason bent down to help his daughter search for a missing library book, he expected to find old toys, forgotten socks, ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

The P vs NP problem is a fundamental question in computer science, unproven for decades, with immense consequences. If ...

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for June 26, 2026 – Claymation plays rough, morphs into solid geometry quiz. The post Math Puzzle ...

A Brief Overview Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that affects a person’s ability to understand numbers and learn math concepts. Like dyslexia, which impacts reading skills, dyscalculia ...

Dyscalculia, often dubbed the “math learning disability,” affects a significant number of students, particularly in high school settings. While dyslexia has garnered more attention over the years, ...

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

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“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 ...