Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Artificial intelligence can write a résumé, answer medical questions, and even have philosophical conversations. But one task it’s not always so good at is solving math problems—and that poses a ...

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

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past. By Steve Lohr In the school year that ended recently, one class of learners stood out as a seeming puzzle.

If you are a math teacher in 2025, you have likely had The Conversation in the faculty lounge. It usually goes something like this:"I assigned a worksheet on qu ...