Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

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A large room inside the Berks County Intermediate Unit in Muhlenberg Township was abuzz Tuesday morning. Kids, students in grades kindergarten through fifth, stood and sat around round tables ...

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January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that ...

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Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

It’s probably one of the more unusual requests from a public company—a $1 trillion paycheck to build an “enormous robot army.” But Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in the business of selling the future and that ...

The back to school season means more opportunities for students to participate in engaging and challenging math competitions. Math competitions are beneficial for students of all ages and levels.

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...