Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...

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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

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One school in Central New York saw proficiency levels on state math tests jump more than 20 percentage points during the 2024 ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

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

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...