After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

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The 1986 protest against calculators is going viral on social media. (@JonErlichman/X) An old newspaper page from 1986 has resurfaced on social media, showing math teachers protesting against the use ...

Some kids don’t easily believe what adults say. This woman taught her daughter that any number multiplied by zero is equal to zero. But instead of taking her word for it, she pulled out a calculator ...

Math doesn’t have to be daunting, especially when your iPhone (or iPad) can do the heavy lifting. Tucked away inside iOS is a full-featured scientific calculator, ready to help you solve complex ...

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Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies. One increasingly widespread analogy describes generative AI ...

OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold ...

Every so often it's good to exercise your brain with a math problem or two that forces you to recall principles you learned decades prior. As elementary as it might feel, you'd be surprised how easy ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...

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, ...