In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

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Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting ...

Nine Vermont students are top scorers in the 2025-2026 Mathematics Talent Search Program. Here's who.

We've all been there: staring at a math test with a problem that seems impossible to solve. What if finding the solution to a problem took almost a century? For mathematicians who dabble in Ramsey ...