A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

Math is not always learned from textbooks. Sometimes, the best lessons begin around a kitchen table. A simple family activity ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.