The Hardest Math Problem Contest is an annual competition that challenges students in grades 6-8 to solve multistep, grade-appropriate math problems with real-world situations and engaging characters.

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

Members of the Princeton High School Math Team have enjoyed competing in math tournaments and national competitions. Wanting their younger counterparts to enjoy a similar experience, they created a ...

A teacher collects newly arrived Grade 10 textbooks from the collection centre in Nakuru Day Senior School on February 3, 2025. Grade 10 learners pursuing the Science, Technology Engineering and ...

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot ...

The victim of an alleged sexual assault by a group of eighth graders on a field trip to Costa Rica last April has filed a ...

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

West Virginia lawmakers have introduced legislation that would ban calculators and math computational devices from kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms statewide.

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...