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A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel AI system capable of grading and providing detailed feedback on ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Earthquakes may be unpredictable, but their impacts are not entirely mysterious. New modeling techniques are offering a clearer view beneath the surface.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s ...