Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

For Sarthak Dassarma ’26, mathematics isn’t a set of rules to memorize—it’s a story, and the Putnam Competition is just his ...

Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, tapped two undergraduate students to verify his ...

It involves 4chan, of all places.

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension with complex math concepts, making them a common hurdle for students. The good ...

Abstract: In this paper, a novel multi-phase architecture for an accurate math word translation system is proposed. This system, ¿MathMaster¿, was designed to help students to gradually develop skills ...

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 ...

This puzzle looks like it needs calculus… but you’re not allowed to use it. I explore alternative methods to get the answer only using basic math tools. 8 million inflation refund checks sent out ...

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 ...