Students have been left in tears after an ‘impossible’ maths paper which left one saying ‘I only got my name right’. Almost 19,000 people have signed a petition demanding a review of the Edexcel A ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Prediction market traders see a strong chance chance that bitcoin falls below $55,000 this year, with meaningful odds it could drop under $40,000. Heavy outflows from U.S. bitcoin ETFs and investors’ ...

STEMscopes Math meets ESSA Level 3 requirements. The certification demonstrates "promising evidence" of a statistically significant, positive effect on student outcomes. Independent study examined ...

Cambridge International Education (CIE) on Wednesday confirmed the leak of a second A-Level mathematics paper that was reportedly circulated online before the examination, saying it was working to ...

Imagine you and I decide to play a simple game of chance. We each throw $50 into a pot and start flipping a coin. Heads, you get a point; tails, I get one. The first person to reach 10 points walks ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

The “right” safe starting withdrawal rate is a moving target, depending on equity valuations, bond yields, prospects for inflation, and a retiree’s own life expectancy and asset allocation, among ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...