Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

As a resource specialist program teacher, I often work with students who know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide during isolated math practice, but completely freeze when those same skills ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Learn how to solve equations from word problems. A word problem is a real-world simulation of a mathematics principle. We can solve equations from word problems by first understanding what the problem ...

👉 Learn how to solve a one-step equation. An equation is a statement stating that two values are equal. A one-step equation is an equation whose solution can be obtained by performing only one step ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

As you read this, every atom in your body is desperately trying to tear itself apart. In fact, that goes for every atom, everywhere, since the beginning of time. Thankfully, those efforts have failed.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's direct reports don't have to worry about one-on-one meetings with the big boss. Huang spoke to podcaster Lex Fridman in an episode published Monday about the way he leads one ...