The always interesting Ruth Marcus in her Washington Post column confesses, with some caveats and apparent unease, that Larry Summers was right when he made his controversial statements about men and ...

Some mathematical statements feel undeniably true the moment you hear them. Yet proving them can be impossible. This theorem ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

We've all heard it. Many of us in fact believe it. Girls just aren't as good at math as boys. But is it true? After sifting through mountains of data - including SAT results and math scores from 7 ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change. The world has learned two things in ...

WATCH BELOW as Sun’s political columnist Brian Lilley talks about how math teachers with the influential (but unofficial), Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), claim the basic math ...