Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet has left people scratching their heads as it requires some clever thinking. The brainteaser, that was shared on X this week by user ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Google on Wednesday (12 November) featured a special Doodle celebrating the quadratic equation, one of mathematics' most fundamental formulas that has shaped everything from engineering to economics.

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation, with people suggesting conflicting answers based on their approaches. The simple math problem went viral on X this week, leaving thousands ...

Indiana juniors who took the state-required SAT exam improved their reading and writing scores, while posting a slight improvement in math. The 2024-25 scores on the SAT taken by 81,620 juniors showed ...

Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we perceive the overall image, or focus on the details? Education policy ...

Numbers, blocks, puzzles, rulers. Math is all around us every day. However, recent research by Suzanne Varnell, a graduate student in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the award ...