In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The students in this rural Kansas high school already solved for that meeting point ...

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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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Wednesday, June 17, 2026 – Makeia Brune has been selected to represent Oklahoma at the 2026 NBA Math Hoops ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work in healthcare. It’s that the system is designed to favor those who’ve ...

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 ...

In last year’s academic achievement evaluation, 1 out of 7 middle school third-year students remained at the lowest level in ...

When we talk about inflation, the conversation usually centers on periods (like now) when inflation is especially high.

How high schools closed the graduation gap. Dear reader, Last week, we kicked off our series exploring measures of the opposite of violence, with a look at our rates of social connection. When we ...

Healthcare policy is increasingly justified through the language of numbers, yet numerical precision does not guarantee sound reasoning. Some of the most damaging public health controversies, from ...