We were peers but she had a managerial instinct for solving problems and tackling stressful situations, which I greatly admired. People often pegged me as someone diligent and reliable ...

The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconn ...

Students could get used to that connection and then, suddenly, have a problem where the “more” leads to a subtraction ... that the word problem at the end will be about addition.

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

This approach made a huge leap in 2010 when Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind, a company aiming to combine neuroscience with AI to solve real-world problems. Hassabis, a chess prodigy at age 4 ...

The same dilemma pops up outside of romantic life, too. Shapley and mathematician David Gale first described it as a problem of college admissions: What kind of application process would ensure ...