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

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

This maths brainteaser left one student in floods of tears. Maths divides opinion like no other school subject. While some pupils sail through algebra and geometry without breaking a sweat, others ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...