Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

An elementary math problem has divided the internet after an easy-looking equation turned out to be anything but simple. Many X users were stumped by the problem 16 ÷ 4 X 4 - 4, posted by ...

(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 ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

Professor Curtis T. McMullen received the 1998 Fields Medal, deemed the most prestigious award in mathematics, for his work on complex dynamics. McMullen is also the creator of the Illustrating ...

Bailey Hairston and Lauren Duval-Shepherd participate in a summer math lesson. Photo by Daniel Mollenkamp for EdSurge. PHILADELPHIA — Elle Oliver knows anger. Multiplying by 12 used to make the rising ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...