Less than a month after OpenAI set off a mathematics firestorm by announcing it had solved one of the field’s most challenging problems, the AI company dropped more than 700 new research papers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

This press release originally appeared online. As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math ...

Researchers have introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized to solve advanced math problems. It is now available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — free for ...

Some of my strongest memories from growing up, while not my fondest, are struggling with my math homework at the kitchen table while my parents fruitlessly tried to help me. OpenAI today hopes its ...

The new plan addresses the importance of math proficiency, aiming to fill persistent learning gaps and accelerate the learning of all students. “Ohio’s mathematics vision builds on long-accepted ...

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 ...

On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI world because it contains hundreds of expert-level problems that ...

How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now–but it hasn’t, as ...

Two education advocacy groups released a report on Tuesday proposing four systemic reforms to address declining mathematics proficiency among New York students.