New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

A simple finger trick for the 11 times table is helping secondary school students aged 12 to 16 improve mental arithmetic skills. By separating two-digit numbers, adding the digits, and inserting the ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

Vedic Maths is a traditional mathematical system based on the Vedas. It helps you solve complex problems quickly and accurately. These effective tricks include a shortcut approach for addition, ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

Five correct answers to six questions doesn't sound particularly surprising at first. However, according to Google and OpenAI, these are breakthroughs for their AI models. This is because the correct ...

A recent Ministry of Education survey reveals significant learning gaps among Indian students. Only 55% of Class 3 students can order numbers up to 99, and just 53% of Class 6 students know ...

Comstock Park — Marshmallows, math and hot cocoa created the perfect equation for a little multiplication on a snowy Friday morning at Pine Island Elementary. Students in Rachel Haveman’s third-grade ...

The Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District ranked the highest of any district in the Syracuse area on the latest round of statewide assessment tests in English language arts and math. The ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...