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Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

Math teachers in Arizona have received death threats after their Halloween costumes were wrongly believed to be mocking the killing of Charlie Kirk. The teachers at Cienega High School in Tucson wore ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now earned a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the “oldest, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

1 Mathematics Department, Halil Inalcık Science and Art Center, Ministry of National Education, Bursa, Türkiye 2 Elementary Education Department, Education Faculty, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...