The Math Brain: How High Will You Go? Math is everywhere. Elementary mathematics are those fundamentals we teach our children at home without even realizing it. How many peanuts will be left if we ...

Scholars are frustrated. After decades of effort to bring more challenge and joy to math class, American students have made little net progress. In 2022, the nation’s students ranked 34th in the ...

I love a good road trip, particularly now that things have thawed here in New England. In addition to picking a playlist or downloading an audiobook, I set my GPS to be sure I’m taking the best route.

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 ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

The recent spate of articles on “woke mathematics” has raised the eyebrows of many people who thought that 2+2=4 was true no matter what race or ethnic background a person came from. I confess that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Although Apple touts Math Notes as an interplay of hardware, software, and ...

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change. The world has learned two things in ...