50% of Ivy League students get this basic math problem wrong. Here’s why.

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...
Edutopia

How to Incorporate the Outdoors Into Elementary Math Learning

Exploring concepts such as observation and measurement in the fresh air can give students a new and playful perspective on ...
NPR Illinois

ISBE zeroes in on improving math education in Illinois

The Illinois Comprehensive Numeracy Plan is described as a “first-of-its-kind” framework in Illinois for guiding schools and ...
Edutopia

Word Problem Strategies for Struggling Learners

Students with learning disabilities and other challenges may find word problems difficult even when they know the math, so ...
The New York Times

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...
New Scientist

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there will still be room for humans ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
acm.org

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

It started almost by accident. At my startup Dwelly, I constantly push the limits of what AI tools can actually do. One day I just typed into a chat: “Can you prove P ≠ NP?”—referring to the problem ...
Forbes

OpenAI AI Finds Counterexample To Decades-Old Math Theory

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely ...
New Scientist

Mathematicians stunned by AI's biggest breakthrough in mathematics yet

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics ...
Scientific American

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...