For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

DPI says the proposed new math standards will help make the courses more meaningful for students in life after high school.

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

California’s public universities were once excellent at milling out mostly competent graduates (along with the requisite duds ...

Some of the constitutional amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot are head scratchers — and not just because voters need to think about how they want to cast their ballots. From jargon-laced proposals about ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Getting all the numbers right is pretty hard, nigh on impossible, but despite dreams of that elusive jackpot, there are many smaller prizes to put a smile on your face if you match some of the numbers ...

A Michigan woman won big in her local Powerball drawing after asking AI to pick her numbers. Tammy Carvey, 45, won $100,000 in September’s $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot after having ChatGPT ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...