Math teachers of older students sometimes struggle to get students to explain their thinking with evidence. It's hard to get kids in the habit of talking about how they are thinking about a problem ...
Editor's Note: To honor math and all who use it, UDaily is re-posting a Pi Day story from 2018. March 14 is Pi Day. You’re welcome to eat pie, too, but the day is more of a celebration of math. A ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
Math teachers who believe women no longer face discrimination tend to be biased against girls’ ability in math. This is what we found through an experiment we conducted with over 400 elementary and ...
Cass Sunstein’s March 1 op-ed lists several possible reasons for girls underperforming in math relative to boys, and highlights a new Israeli study showing that biased teachers can inhibit girls’ math ...