Model providers continue to roll out increasingly sophisticated large language models (LLMs) with longer context windows and enhanced reasoning capabilities.  This allows models to process and “think” ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

Goto Joji, an expert in mathematics education, emphasizes the need for university-level mathematics education to develop ...

Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

First, the book connects all math concepts back to addition. If you can add, you’ll see that “advanced math” isn’t as inscrutable as it seems. Here’s a sample about logarithms .

Often, he said, the traditional sequence teaches students more about the procedure of math than about how concepts are used in the real world. ... For example, Georgia still offers algebra II, ...

Learn 10 essential math concepts for software engineering and technical interviews. Understand how programmers use mathematics in fields like AI, game dev, crypto, machine learning, and mor ...

A lot of the math instruction in schools today combines procedural and conceptual instruction, said Sarah Powell, a professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, whose ...

For example, conceptual learning. A lot of the instructional products have opened up our eyes to real conceptual learning, not just procedural math anymore. But a lot of teachers have only grown up ...

During the procedure, researchers asked the patients a series of questions that prompted them to think about numbers as symbols (for example, 3), as words ("three") and as concepts (a series of ...