By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their final answers are correct, and it evaluates the quality of training data so ...

With organization being their key function, think of each cube as a filing folder. Marie Kondo, known for her KonMari method, suggests starting by making a list of all the items you need. “Then, lay ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agent memory remains a problem that enterprises want to fix, as agents forget some instructions or conversations the longer they run. Anthropic believes it has solved this issue for its Claude Agent ...

Four years ago, I was given a fantastic opportunity to be a math coach for a primary years program. But when I started, there was no framework to work within, no script to follow. I was starting from ...

When I first started working with multi-agent collaboration (MAC) systems, they felt like something out of science fiction. It’s a group of autonomous digital entities that negotiate, share context, ...

Rubik's cubes are great for fun, fast-paced problem solving, but they also have a rich mathematical structure involving ideas of symmetry and connectivity. A 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube has 43 quintillion ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...