Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

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The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the "doubling the square" problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square, the student doubled the ...

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Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 are milestones for AI reasoning. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox ...

Here's how high school students solved a math problem that was once thought to be impossible. Calcea Johnson and NeKiya Jackson [inspiremore] Two high school students, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.