Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing story about numbers.

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform.

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 ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

According to Greg Brockman (@gdb) and Terence Tao, GPT-5.2 Pro has reached a significant milestone by independently solving an Erdos problem—a first for large language models (LLMs). This achievement ...

According to God of Prompt on Twitter, GPT-5.2 Thinking has achieved a perfect score of 100% on the AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination) without using external tools (source: God of ...