After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Teachers College Press (TCP) at Teachers College, Columbia University, a leading publisher of ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Imagination has never been the most intractable problem in the physics of warp drive; it has been bookkeeping. The Alcubierre concept of 1994, the celebrated one, fits in the general relativity theory ...

The San Francisco Unified School District is investigating a math teacher at Lowell High School amid questions about his teaching methods.

Seventeen-year-old Vishnu Kannan’s love for math and problem solving led him to become the founder of a tech startup, which ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

A method for making quantum computers less error-prone could let them run complex programs such as simulations of materials more efficiently, thus making them more useful ...

When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing story about numbers.

AI has driven an explosion of new number formats—the ways in which numbers are represented digitally. Engineers are looking ...