Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

With AI’s ability to solve complex math problems in a matter of seconds, it may feel to teachers like the technology is rapidly changing—or will soon—how math is taught. When free and widely available ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

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AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. DPI released draft K-12 math standards proposed to replace required Math 3. Students would keep Math 1 and Math 2, then choose two ...