During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school...
Outschool is a teaching platform that offers online classes for kids. The platform is used by homeschoolers, microschoolers, and children enrolled in traditional schools...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown significantly in the past few years, mainly because of the rise of large language models (LLMs). These sophisticated AI...
IntroductionIn 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture, a major open question in number theory about the relationship between...
IntroductionYael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as...
IntroductionSailors have spun yarns for centuries about gigantic rogue waves that could suddenly come out of nowhere to capsize the ships of unwary mariners....
Introduction“For me, mathematics exists in the space between us,” Emmy Murphy wrote in accepting the 2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.
That space, for her,...
IntroductionIn mid-October, Justin Gilmer flew from California to New York to attend a friend’s wedding. While on the East Coast he visited his former...
During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP),...