Seventeen-year-old Vishnu Kannan’s love for math and problem solving led him to become the founder of a tech startup, which ...

The idea that some people are “math people” and some are not is a myth. All people can learn to do math. Where people differ is their mindset. We can change that.

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

Some people dreamed of puzzles, some didn’t, some were lucid, some were not. Interpreting the data proved tricky, but one thing did come clear, says Konkoly. People who dreamed of the puzzles did tend ...

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This psychology-based problem-solving quiz reveals whether you solve problems through ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

On a simple math task — indicating which of two amounts is greater — kids with math learning disability get the right answer as often as their good-at-math peers, but behind the scenes, their brains ...