Over 20 years ago, Bob Moses, a civil rights activist and educator, published “Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project.” In his book, Moses argued that teaching math ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

A young student has revamped a century-old math problem and unlocked a simple, yet elegant solution to optimize wind turbine flow conditions and enhance power output. Divya Tyagi, an aerospace ...

This is episode one of a three-part series. You can listen to part two here and part three here. [CLIP: Wind howls] Rachel Feltman: When Tom Crawford climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and stood 5,895 meters ...

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 are milestones for AI reasoning. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

The prospect of a humiliating pile-up in the governor's race has put the state’s political class increasingly on edge.

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...