Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

👉 Learn how to multiply radicals. A radical is a number or an expression under the root symbol. To multiply radicals with the same root, it is usually easy to evaluate the product by multiplying the ...

Gov. Abigail Spanberger is currently considering whether to sign a bill to codify contraceptive access in Virginia, but for progressive policymakers in the state, the real battle for “reproductive ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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Both explanations have their place in math instruction, but according to a large-scale 2025 study of upper elementary math instruction, the use of precise mathematical terminology may matter more than ...

The case for a military strike in Iran is stronger than any we’ve seen in decades. The ethnonationalist, imperial regime in Tehran enslaves and murders its own by the tens of thousands, threatens ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...

Fun math facts for kids is the topic of our blog post today! Today we’re taking a little detour from my usual focus on educational technology and diving headfirst into the captivating world of math!