DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...

Your daughter aced her freshman biology class and came home announcing she wants to be a biomedical engineer. Meanwhile, your ...

Traditional skills are disappearing from the modern world as digital tools reshape daily life and how people learn.

As OpenAI's president, Brockman is steamrolling toward "completing the mission" of moving beyond AI to artificial general ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the CIA headquarters, just ...

In 2024, nearly three out of every four restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant, according to data provided to me by ...