Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

When trying out the feature for myself, I asked Gemini to make a simulation of the Moon orbiting the Earth, and it created a ...

For those who celebrate it, tracking what day the holiday Easter takes place on can be a challenge. As if that wasn’t ...

It’s amazing! 🥰🥰” When I searched for it again, the ad had been taken down; the next time I saw it was as an exhibit in a ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Earlier today I posed four puzzles from the Hyde Park Math Zine, a maths fanzine from Austin, Texas. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Ring it Each region has a perimeter given by its enclosed ...

Today’s puzzles all come from … the Hyde Park Math Zine! This delightful publication is written in pen on a single folded sheet of paper, has a print run of 30 copies, and is distributed in the ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...