eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #4 focuses on making math instruction more relevant to students. The real question students are asking is, “When am I ever going ...

Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly ...

A simple 2+2 problem became a paradox when real-world context intervened, sparking Kareem Carr’s debate on definitions and axioms. Carr and others show how context bent arithmetic, such as angles ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

In his telling, farming isn’t outlawed in the obvious way, because that would trigger instant backlash, and instead the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

In a nutshell, string theory is a sprawling realm of theoretical physics that assumes that tiny vibrating strings are the ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

The best brain breaks aren’t random or mere time-fillers—they’re purposeful pauses that help students regulate, reconnect, ...