Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

During the 2024-25 National Finalist Pitch Event, PBS News Hour Classroom had the chance to observe student presentations of ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, ...

Grades offer a snapshot of performance, but they rarely capture the full picture of a student’s understanding. Hidden gaps, ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...