Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The San Francisco Unified School District is investigating a math teacher at Lowell High School amid questions about his teaching methods. The investigation centers around complaints over potentially ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

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 ...

A Brain teaser is a type of puzzle which requires thinking and logical skills. In these types of puzzles, even math riddles are a type of puzzle in which puzzles are in numerical form. These maths ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...

Never miss a story with The Brief, our free newsletter. We redesigned this tool with more timely data and context to help Texans interpret information about our schools. Independent Texas reporting ...

Setting aside time in the school day to teach students social-emotional skills, such as emotional regulation and perspective-taking, can substantially boost students’ grade-point averages and ...

Another week of football, another big test for the Arizona State Sun Devils Football unit as they face the TCU Horned Frogs. TCU's offense has been great so far this season, as they have at least put ...

Scores for 12th-graders in math and reading continued their years-long slide, reaching new lows on national tests, new data released Tuesday shows. The declines were underway before the onset of the ...