After its Back to Basics reading overhaul, New York is turning to math — but educators and researchers can't agree on ...
The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...
NFL fans who are even tangentially aware of New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo know exactly what he brings to the table. The soon-to-be second-year sensation burst onto the scene in 2025 and ...
In mathematics education, we have long relied on a familiar sequence: introduce vocabulary, demonstrate procedures, and assign practice. For some students, this works well enough. But for many ...
LONDON—Alex Gerko’s edge as a trader comes from a supercomputer powered by geothermal energy in Iceland. Years before ChatGPT became a household name, his trading firm, XTX Markets, built an ...
Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in the Kennedy College of Sciences, has been interested by Ramsey theory since his master’s degree studies at Central European ...
Vanderbilt University has launched an inquiry into a mathematics lecturer whose classroom exercise about Palestinian territory drew criticism from the activist group StopAntisemitism. Tekin Karadağ, a ...
During the pandemic, Rishik Shenolikar offered to help tutor neighborhood kids in his garage. It was a small group of elementary schoolers, and he used a mental math book that intrigued him. He helped ...
A Senate committee chair has launched an investigation into what he says is a decline in how prepared freshmen accepted into selective institutions are for math courses there. Sen. Bill Cassidy, the ...
Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...
More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...