Third-grade multiplication doesn’t have to be a struggle—game-based learning is making it more engaging than ever. From ski races to candy shop arrays, interactive tools blend fun with skill-building.

AI is no longer on the margins of mathematics. It is shaping how problems are approached, explored and solved. Yet, as its ...

She’s starring in “Pretty Lethal” and “Coyote vs. Acme” and the new season of Netflix’s “XO, Kitty” this year, so it’s no wonder that Lana Condor could use an energy boost. “I’m naturally a pretty ...

It was my first date with a guy whose OK Cupid profile stated that he was a polyamorous man in a long-term relationship, and without even trying, I had impressed him by mentioning my former colleague, ...

Because how Rahm eats a salad is how he does anything and everything: with intent and with verve and without mercy. The next ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude. I can tell you the story of how math instruction is failing ...