Fox’s lecture, and the accompanying colloquium he’ll present on March 11, are part of his three-day appearance as the William and Marjorie Blackwell Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is named ...
Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...
From the perspective of a math educator, this is not a minor abuse of statistics but a failure of epistemic responsibility, one that undermines the possibility of public reasoning itself. Mr. Trump’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math. High scores on known Datasets do not always mean real understanding. Small changes in numbers can break Language Models ...
Paul Erdős, known as the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, proposed many unsolved problems throughout his life, known as 'Erdős problems.' GPT-5.2 Pro solved one of these problems, and ...
Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...
AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...