Home appraisals have a funny way of feeling personal, even though they’re mostly math, market data, and a clipboard. One day you’re proud of your place, the next you’re wondering […] ...

A Colorado teacher says paper, pencils, and more effort changed his math class. The tradeoff: less convenience but possibly better learning.

It’s amazing! 🥰🥰” When I searched for it again, the ad had been taken down; the next time I saw it was as an exhibit in a ...

The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is observed every year on March 14. Celebrated since 2020, the day highlights the importance of Mathematics in everyday life. Schools often mark the occasion ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Unruly Republic: With artificial intelligence disaster looming, we’re told to empower experts, raise taxes! Could we be heading into another version of climate alarmism? Photo: Noah Berger/AP/Vincent ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

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 ...

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 ...

To close out the semester, here is a conversation I had with fellow math PhD student Michael Catli. Michael and I both started the PhD in Fall 2023, although I knew him slightly before that, via a ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for ...