The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

SINGAPORE – The answers to a prestigious US mathematics competition popular among Singapore students were leaked and listed for sale on e-commerce and social media platforms. Answers to the American ...

Prepping for the SAT is nobody’s idea of fun, but Google aims to make it less stressful with AI. The company announced that it’s now focusing its AI education efforts on standardized testing with free ...

The New York State Education Department has released opt-out rates for state assessment tests in math for the 2024-2025 school year. You can browse opt-out rates for school districts across New York ...

Boeing's Starliner had it rough from the start. With a long, storied history of issues, the spacecraft finally defied all the odds against it last year, lifting off into space with two astronauts ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

There is good and bad news in this year’s newly released standardized test scores for New Jersey public school students. The good news is the average test scores on the science portion of the tests ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

IQ tests were designed to measure cognitive ability, but decades of research show they reflect education, culture, and socioeconomic background as much as innate intelligence. If Ukraine falls, it won ...

Recent media coverage of an 18-year-old woman from Greenland's legal battle to regain custody of her baby after the child was taken from by government authorities just an hour after birth has cast a ...