The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay up to date on current AI trends” to prepare students for the future. But ...

You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. In the early nineteen-nineties, when Arindrajit Dube was growing up in Seattle, where his parents were ...

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 ...

If you have encountered the error message “There’s a problem with this formula” in Microsoft Excel, you are not alone. Many users report this error appearing ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Wikipedia has recently come under the microscope. I take some credit for this, as the co-founder of Wikipedia and a vocal critic of the knowledge platform for a long time. In September, I nailed ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

In 1990, 8-year-old Jennifer Schuett was abducted from her Texas bedroom, assaulted, and left for dead in a field with her throat slashed. Remarkably, she survived by crawling to safety and later ...