The real math crisis isn’t the test scores. It’s the test

We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.   Let’s start with ...

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Nature

Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows that systems still fall short of top human expertise. Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet ...
PBS

Teens' reading and math scores have stagnated, U.S. test results show

WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic's disruptions while older students' test scores continue to stagnate, according to the latest testing data ...
Scientific American

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...
NPR

After years of declines, young students show gains in reading and math

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...
Yahoo

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students and faculty walk the courtyard at UC Irvine. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) More than 600 University of ...
Time

‘Learning Recession’: Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Decline Across the U.S.

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NPR

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...
Popular Science

Can you best a math Olympiad? Test your skills with the world’s largest database of problems.

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Scientific American

AI just got its toughest math test yet. The results are mixed

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...