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Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

To help students calibrate their trust and expectations of AI assistants, computer science educators should provide opportunities for students to use AI programming assistants for tasks with a range ...

After 27 years, Berkeley Math Circle has shut down its flagship program, BMC-Upper, due to “stringent” new campus background ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

Rather than study how to use AI, students in this machine learning class work with the math that makes the AI work.

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Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

Could math predict humanity’s end? The Carter catastrophe suggests we might be living closer to the finale than we realize.

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Tanks are built to survive explosions—but they’re no match for a weapon that uses geometry to create a hypersonic jet of molten metal. From the invention of the shaped charge to why cardboard and ...