For about a decade, Jennings has created "Kennections" quizzes for Mental Floss, testing trivia lovers on their ability to ...

Are you the sort who springs into action at the first hint of a problem, or do you cross your fingers and hope it'll vanish? Discover your approach to everyday dilemmas with this fun personality quiz.

A Korean mathematician has won international recognition for solving a geometry puzzle that had resisted proof for nearly six decades. US magazine Scientific American named the research by Baek ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

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 ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

Introduction: The ability to solve complex mathematical problems has become a key indicator of students' mathematical literacy and innovative capacity. Methods: Based on the TIMSS 2023 data and ...

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Crime involving young people “continues to be a challenge” in Baltimore, local officials wrote in response to a national survey of 60 big-city mayors who largely said they consider the issue “serious ...