As the 2025-2026 school year winds down, OCPS 8th graders are facing a critical juncture: mastering systems of equations and cube roots, two concepts that often determine success in high school ...

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Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable ...

The University of the Pacific recently hosted the annual Math Steeplechase. More than 1,000 students participated in the ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

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 ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...