Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

In this video I will show you how to complete the square by working through 28 different examples. We will focus on basic completing the square problems when a=1. I make short, to-the-point online ...

Over the weekend, user @BholanathDutta shared the equation that looked relatively simple to his thousands of followers, until it wasn’t, stumping many online who immediately regretted snoozing through ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

Mathematics often feels straightforward, yet some results challenge the way people instinctively think about numbers. Certain paradoxes and probability problems produce answers that seem impossible at ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the design of engineering mathematics assessment that encourages learning beyond algorithmic recall. Our approach is based on the MATH (mathematical assessment task ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...