Remember the principal who spent a night on the roof of Coolidge Elementary after daring his students to hit one million math ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

However, girls tend to be more diligent in elementary school and get better grades in math class throughout their schooling. And girls and boys across the grades tend to score similarly on state math ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

"Regular" high school seniors in Australia faced an astonishing statistics problem in their exams. Math is having a high profile year, from common core to Australia's high school exit exams. The math ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through solving it.

Every few months, the Internet eats itself over some kind of viral riddle or illusion, each more infuriating than the last. And so, like clockwork, this maddening math problem has gone viral, ...

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The latest math problem to go viral and stump the internet involves a playful illustration of ice cream cones. Artist Gergely Dudás, who is known ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...

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