A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

In 2002, with the dot-com wreckage still smouldering, Sun Microsystems’ chief executive officer Scott McNealy was asked about ...

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

Fractions are a difficult math concept for many children to learn, but pairing lessons with basketball may offer some help.

A dribble and a jump shot, followed by a fractions task. That is what physical education classes looked like for a group of pupils, and the pupils not only found the lessons more engaging than ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

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By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the ...

The takeaway: Minecraft was never designed to behave like a calculator. Its world is built entirely from cubes, with no smooth curves and no native concept of continuous geometry. That makes it an ...