A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical ...

A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example, x² + 5x + ...

Here are two examples of math problems sixth graders may face using one of the new curricula. Can you solve them? We showed them to Stuyvesant High School teacher Gary Rubinstein, who blogs about ...

Researchers from Stanford University and Google DeepMind have unveiled Step-Wise Reinforcement Learning (SWiRL), a technique designed to enhance the ability of large language models (LLMs) to tackle ...

Google DeepMind's AlphaGeometry AI system impresses at the International Mathematical Olympiad, outperforming human gold ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...