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A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that ...