The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking ...

Imagine a classroom where students stare blankly at a writing prompt or fumble with math problems that should take seconds. Teachers across the U.S. face this reality daily, with some reporting a ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

The game will be familiar to Scrabble or Words with Friends players, but the Times is adding a few twists of its own.

An 11-year-old Ridgeview student’s idea became a math club that placed in the top 10% nationally in its first year of ...

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

Abstract: Taking several topic words and a math expression as input, the aim of math word problem generation is to generate a problem that can be answered by the given expression and related to these ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...

Angie Werner got a lot more than she bargained for on January 24, when she sat down to help her 8-year-old daughter, Ayla, with her math homework. As Pop Sugar reported in 2018, the confusion began ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...