Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

The Johnson & Wales approach to education has always been richly experiential. Now, that real-world, hands-on focus is being fully integrated into every course, including those in the Core Curriculum.

The Ontario government has committed to a “back to basics” approach. Yet the results so far suggest that entrenched beliefs ...

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With the rise of AI, business leaders may be wondering: Is it time to outsource math to machines, freeing managers to do more managerial things? Harsha V. Misra is the founder of a private investment ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...