Harvard doesn’t grade perfectly — but it often does learning right. I hope that the faculty subcommittee on grading won’t take it all away.

Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better ...

We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks.

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

In other words, you want to construct a polyhedral torus with faces that are shapes such as triangles or rectangles. Your peculiar-looking shape will be trickier to construct than one with a smooth ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

One stray sentence turns reliable-looking AI math into confident mistakes that are hard to notice during everyday use. As these systems spread into tutoring, hiring, and customer service, small ...

Paul Erdős, known as the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, proposed many unsolved problems throughout his life, known as 'Erdős problems.' GPT-5.2 Pro solved one of these problems, and ...