Following recent reading legislation, Wisconsin is now focusing on improving math proficency. The state education department is creating a statewide math plan, but it is not a mandate like the "Act 20 ...

In July 2026, a rumor spread that Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, signed a bill to remove math, reading and writing requirements for graduation to help students of color. The story spread as some ...

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, educators quickly asked whether students would use artificial intelligence to cheat, learn or simply get through homework more efficiently. Evidence is beginning to ...

The t-shirt is yellow, 100% cotton and meant for “everyday wear”. Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...

Yang-Hui He is a fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences in London, UK. Among mathematicians and theoretical physicists, artificial intelligence provokes a range of reactions. Some ...

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 ...

I love a good road trip, particularly now that things have thawed here in New England. In addition to picking a playlist or downloading an audiobook, I set my GPS to be sure I’m taking the best route.

If you’ve ever wished Ableton’s DAW had a specific feature, now you can hack it together in JavaScript. If you’ve ever wished Ableton’s DAW had a specific feature, now you can hack it together in ...

Ableton is opening up Live in a new way. On June 2, the Berlin software company launched the public beta of its Extensions SDK, a free JavaScript toolkit that lets users build custom add-ons for ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

More than 800 professors in the University of California system, including seven of nine math department chairs, are calling on system leaders to reinstate SAT/ACT testing requirements for applicants ...