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Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

“Yoshua recently turned 57. He is three years younger than Yann. How old is Yann?” Solving such a math word problem (MWP) requires understanding the short natural language narrative describing a state ...

Use Math Progress to personalize math instruction, engage students, and identify learning gaps. Explore the educator’s guide to Math Progress. Many students face challenges in building confidence with ...

The hype around generative AI (GenAI) is undeniable. Tools like ChatGPT have captivated the public imagination, demonstrating an impressive ability to generate human-like text, create content and ...

Growing up in Japan in the postwar years, Kashiwara was drawn to maths, he recalls a common Japanese maths problem known as tsurukamezan, which translates as the crane and turtle calculation Peter ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...