On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

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At Creo College Preparatory Charter School in the South Bronx, after students spent hours taking practice tests, they were ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Mathematics education must move beyond marks and memorisation, focusing instead on reasoning, problem-solving, and creative ...

Can you solve the elementary school problem that divided the internet in less than 30 seconds? Test your might in this ...

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and NVIDIA have introduced a new method that helps large language models reason ...

A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news outlets. The steep drops in math performance of incoming students, highlighted in a ...

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Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...