Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

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 ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are recommending that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP Proving once again that children’s interests are the ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has announced that senior high schools across the country will not take part in the 2025 edition of the National Science and Maths Quiz ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

A dad asked Reddit for help to solve his son's standard 5th math quiz, and the social media users came up with a surprising solution. A US dad took to Reddit after getting stumped by his fifth ...