From Pig Latin to Punch Buggy, kids have long used nonsensical language, gestures and games to carve out cultures of their ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

Researchers tested the accuracy of five AI models using 500 everyday math prompts. The results show that there is roughly a ...

GSM8K-V is a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark that systematically maps each GSM8K math word problem into its visual counterpart to enable a clean, within-item comparison ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this topic [Kevin ...

Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math. In 2008, she entered the City College of New York, where she played for the basketball team and hoped to start a career in sports nutrition. She saw ...

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...

A critical advancement in recent times has been exploring reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to improve LLMs beyond traditional supervised fine-tuning methods. RL allows models to learn optimal ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...