The United States is dominating the skies above Iran. But math is not necessarily on America’s side. Iran is using low-cost ...

It’s been a while since most of us sat in a math classroom, right?This quiz takes you from Grade 1 basics all the way to serious school-level problems - and it’s tougher than it sounds. There are 36 ...

Pretraining a modern large language model (LLM), often with ~100B parameters or more, typically involves thousands of ...

America’s crisis of reading instruction is by now well-known. But have you checked on your kid’s math skills lately?

Mathematics has always been one of the most challenging subjects for students of all ages. From simple arithmetic to complex calculus, many learners struggle to understand formulas, equations, and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math. High scores on known Datasets do not always mean real understanding. Small changes in numbers can break Language Models ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...