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On New Year’s Eve, an 11-year-old boy heard a scream coming from his parents’ bedroom. By morning, his mother was gone — and his father said she had simply “walked away.” But the boy knew better.

Abstract: We present a multi-way parallel corpus of Math Word Problems (MWPs) in nine languages, including six low-resource languages. To date, this is the largest multilingual MWP dataset available.

Earlier in my career, I consistently assigned what many of us think of as traditional math homework: a worksheet with 20 similar problems or a textbook page full of several repetitive problems. This ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

A clever visual word puzzle built around a simple object that hides a bigger answer. See how small details and counting clues lead to the final solution. A fun quick-play quiz for puzzle and riddle ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...