For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Manjee: Students use screens only for end-of-lesson check-ins — giving teachers real-time info about who's on track and who's ...

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're easily frightened. Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be ...

SINGAPORE – Lim Meng Liang, 38, spends most of his time solving the impossible. As a specialist in Diophantine equations – notoriously complex mathematical problems famous for having no solutions – ...

Welcome to The Playfield, a weekly column about the games we’re currently playing here at The A.V. Club. Every Saturday our games writers Garrett Martin and Elijah Gonzalez will look at whatever ...

In July 2020, 4chan’s video-game discussion board looked much like the rest of the notorious online forum. There were elaborate, libidinal fantasies involving “whores” and “dragon cum,” and comments ...

Abigail Schneider, 8, completes a level of her learning game on a laptop computer, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. John Minchillo/AP/File The 2001 Australian thriller ...

Math has a unique relationship with AI. Unlike subjects where answers live in shades of gray, math problems demand precision. A solution is either correct or it isn’t. That makes accuracy the ...

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...

Mathematics be a tricky subject, and many students struggle to get the hang of it, finding it difficult to solve problems and equations in class. It requires a special sort of attention that one can’t ...