New research finds girls and women more often use step-by-step algorithms, while boys and men use shortcuts. Accuracy is ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

We have all heard the old saying, "Sleep on it," when trying to solve a problem or making an important decision. There might be some scientific truth to that advice, especially when it comes to ...

From writing essays to coding, there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly ...

You’ve no doubt seen some version of this viral math problem making the rounds on Facebook, Reddit or X (though we’ve given ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Entrepreneur and technologist in AI and AI Literacy. Over the past few months, two notable developments occurred in AI that you ...

We were teetering on the brink of frustration. Anthony sat hunched over our kitchen island, pencil in hand, peering at the figures and word problems spread out before him. I stood nearby, at a loss at ...

The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to ...