California, four other states praised for aligning high school and college math

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.
ZME Science

Ancient Mesopotamian Pottery Shows That People Understood Symmetry and Division 4,000 years before the Sumerians Invented Numbers

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...
New Atlas

8,000-year-old pottery suggests math predates writing

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...
The New York Times

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...