If you are a parent, teacher, or policymaker, the annual release of exam results brings a familiar sense of anxiety. For ...

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Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

“Yoshua recently turned 57. He is three years younger than Yann. How old is Yann?” Solving such a math word problem (MWP) requires understanding the short natural language narrative describing a state ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

A math word problem is a narrative with a specific topic that provides clues to the correct equation with numerical quantities and variables therein. In this paper, we focus on the task of generating ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

A seemingly simple math problem has left social media users confused as they argue over the correct answer. The equation, shared by user @BholanathDutta on X, appears simple enough for grade school ...

Abstract: We present a multi-way parallel corpus of Math Word Problems (MWPs) in nine languages, including six low-resource languages. To date, this is the largest multilingual MWP dataset available.

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This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...