Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. New York school districts will soon begin revamping math instruction ...

In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined ...

Can you hear the shape of a drum? Can math help reveal what’s happening inside a human organ? For Ricardo Araujo Torres, these aren’t just riddles—they’re the focus of his research at Fordham. “What ...

Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a theorem by the logician Kurt Gödel.

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, and perceive the world. Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, ...

Mathematics has always demanded patience. From solving linear equations in algebra to navigating derivatives and integrals in calculus, the journey often involves multiple steps, careful checking, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5 found there are four key ...

Functional math goals often show up in IEP meetings as an afterthought—or worse, as a point of disagreement. You may see vague language about “real-world skills,” goals that sound appropriate but ...

Math is often thought of as the school subject most divorced from student emotions. But as educator Liesl McConchie has found over 25 years of teaching and studying how the brain learns, a student’s ...