Turnitin, used to crack down on AI cheating in schools, plans to use students’ essays to train AI, stirring controversy in academic circles.

Thoughts I’ll share at the start of my upper division math course

Why combining structure, application, and collaboration in classrooms leads to deeper learning and improving math instruction.

When math tutors use SEL strategies, students not only gain confidence in their math skills, they grow empathy and resilience and feel truly seen as learners.

When students look for keywords, they may fail to read the whole problem. Teachers can use these three strategies to help students accurately understand what they need to do.

Research shows that young students build stronger math understanding when it connects to their everyday lives.

A novice educator turns her "weakness" into a teaching strength.

Here are three of the CEMC’s many programs that are specifically helping to address the gender equity gap.

Mathematics shows that every electoral system must compromise among proportionality, local representation, and parliament size.

AI-powered breakthroughs are raising big questions about how to do mathematics – and why we do it in the first place.

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.

Math is more than memorizing times tables and doing homework problems. It is woven into more aspects of your life than you might think.

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Mathematician Sarah Hart has always loved to read — and she argues literature and math are fundamentally intertwined. She traces the long history of those connections and how they play out in literary...

John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a Fields Medal.

Four completely satisfying answers.

Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy.

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.

Elementary teachers tended to experience more math anxiety—and the effect on student learning can compound.

Although math may not seem like an obvious addition to plans for summer activities, there are easy ways to make it part of the equation, says Olga Fellus. The Brock University Assistant Professor of…

Black children are 15% of public school students, but only 6% of those in AP math while 12% of all workers are Black but just 9% of those in STEM.

By expanding dynamical systems theories to account for forgetting rates, attraction levels, and reaction patterns, math can now identify ‘relationship danger zones’.

For high school student Emir Kardos, watching the University of Toronto’s Jacob Tsimerman win the 2026 Fields Medal just down the hall from the professor’s office felt like “standing in the presence o...

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than…

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

Released on this day in 1964, “A Hard Day’s Night” has confounded guitarists with its famous opening chord. Here’s why no one was ever able to play it correctly.

Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

Supporters say ‘integrated math’ allows for a variety of STEM pathways in high school

The definitive ranking.

A GAO report finds 42 states and the District of Columbia increased the share of students with disabilities in general education classes.

How do bees make group decisions without a leader? Math experts have determined that the best strategy is for a few to assume the risk of foraging under all conditions while the majority stay safely…

Researchers detect ‘cognitive surrender’ in answering word problems

Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering: My search for a hidden structure to astronomically unlikely occurrences

Teachers can support students during the final stages of college preparation by viewing supports through a transition lens.

Schools in Oregon and Virginia are trying to build students' vocabulary in the subject—and their confidence.

A study connecting teachers from Chongqing, China and Ontario reveals strengths in Ontario mathematics education, and what could contribute to ongoing improvement.

Jon Star on strategies to move math teaching beyond speed, fostering deeper thinking and understanding for advanced students

Struggling students can get lost when tutoring uses different terminology and approaches from their core classroom instruction. A recent study found students tutored using more-aligned materials made…

GeekWire STEM Educator of the Year Tracy Drinkwater is changing the narrative around math. Go inside SUMM, Seattle’s new interactive math museum.

By giving students the opportunity to wonder and generate questions, teachers can boost engagement and strengthen problem-solving skills.

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Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when math scores nationwide are already at a dismal low

Just over half of U.S. teens say they've used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support from these tools. Teens tend to view AI's future impact on their lives…

Alise Fox loved math as a kid but had no idea what kinds of jobs it would lead to. Now, she works at the intersection of mathematical modelling, marine ecology, and science communication.