Oh, the stress of learning math! It’s all so black and white — there are right answers, and there are wrong answers. Those more comfortable in the gray area in-between often find themselves afflicted ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. But new research I led found that difficulties with advanced topics often stem from earlier gaps in ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5 found there are four key ...

Functional math goals often show up in IEP meetings as an afterthought—or worse, as a point of disagreement. You may see vague language about “real-world skills,” goals that sound appropriate but ...

CEO expectations for AI-driven growth remain high in 2026—at the same time their workforces are grappling with the more sober reality of current AI performance. Gartner research finds that only one in ...