A 31-year-old Korean mathematician solved one of the oldest math puzzles and was recognized as one of Scientific American’s top math breakthroughs of 2025. The “Optimality of Gerver's Sofa” study by ...

Fourteen years ago, an American professor traveled to South Korea on sabbatical and came away so impressed with that country’s math textbooks and teaching materials that she decided to have an entire ...

South Korea has some of the highest math scores in the world. On the 2012 PISA math test, the mean score for a South Korean student was 70 points higher than for an American student. Lots of theories ...

Math is a hot subject right now—especially in the world of mergers and acquisitions. Last week, DreamBox Learning raised $130 million to grow its online K-8 math software. A few days earlier, that ...

The 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was generally easier than last year. The highest standard scores dropped by 11 points in Korean and 8 points in Mathematics compared to last year, ...

SEOUL, Sept. 28 (UPI) --A North Korean teenage math prodigy who defected to a South Korean consulate in July left Hong Kong on Saturday. The teen, identified as Jong Yol Ri, arrived in Seoul after 80 ...

The proportion of 'underachieving' students in 2nd year high school who did not understand even 20% of the mathematics curriculum from last year appears to have decreased compared to the previous year ...

After raising $50 million earlier this month in a SoftBank-backed funding round, Seoul-based edtech startup Mathpresso aims to disrupt the traditional tutoring industry with AI and plans to join the ...

South Korean students ranked the highest in mathematics, and scored highly in reading and science proficiency tests among the nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, ...

Korea’s leading homegrown AI models fell far short of top overseas rivals like ChatGPT and DeepSeek when tested on college entrance exam math and advanced essay problems, a new academic study showed ...