A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

OpenAI o1 is a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength While policymakers, researchers and educators decide how our children learn math, parents don’t seem to be anywhere ...

DeepMind's Aletheia is a huge advance in AI-driven mathematical reasoning. It is a research agent built on top of Gemini Deep ...

Whether it’s automating tedious coding tasks, solving complex logic puzzles, or even weighing in on ethical dilemmas, AI tools like OpenAI’s o3-Mini promise to make our lives easier. But let’s be ...

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This week, two online math instructional developers found themselves in the crosshairs of private equity firms. One of these deals made for splashy headlines: Dreambox Learning’s $130 million ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

At one point during this year’s SXSWedu—a slick Austin conference heavy on marketing for education technology—an audience member stood and asked a panel of Texas lawmakers the question most in the ...