Mathematics is solving problems,” said Bethany Rittle-Johnson, a professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College in Vanderbilt University, who studies math instruction.

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack.  She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together into perfect rectangles. As she moves the Fibonacci sequence puzzle ...

AI is accelerating a conversation around how math instruction should put more emphasis on using numbers to solve real-world problems.

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous maths problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century.

A math problem has left the internet stumped and social media users scrambling from their nearest protractor to figure it out. Students, teachers and social media are baffled by a tricky math question ...

But what role does math play in solving complex problems such as curing a disease? In my job as an applied mathematician, I use mathematical tools to study and solve complex problems in biology.

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

Google DeepMind’s new AI systems can now solve complex math problems AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 are steps toward building systems that can reason, which could unlock exciting new capabilities.

This week’s puzzle comes from a real problem on a math test given to students in Singapore. It is neither trivial nor a prank, but it went viral for causing rifts among solvers.