Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Math education is ...

SOME have likened the process of doing abstract mathematics to hacking your way out of some dense forest. Maryam Mirzakhani, the late mathematician and the first of only two women to win a Fields ...

Before ChatGPT could write essays, explain tax code, or summarize earnings reports, it had to master something far simpler but no less profound: probability. While headlines may credit “artificial ...