NEW ORLEANS — A high school math contest has turned into a history-making event thanks to a pair of young girls. These two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean ...

What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient mathematical rule of Pythagoras' theorem. It's long been claimed ...

But a recent national survey of more than 1,000 math teachers reveals that many are rejecting the materials they should be using and cobbling together their own. “A surprising number of math teachers, ...

AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still ...

Two Black female high school students in New Orleans solved the Pythagorean theory, a math problem that genius mathematicians have failed to at for over of 2,000 years. “Each student can win up ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with New Orleans high school seniors Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson on finding a possible new proof to a 2,000-year-old math theorem and discuss their future ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

DeepMind estimates that the average gold medalist would have solved 26 out of 30 problems. Many view the IMO as the world’s most prestigious math competition for high school students.

Larsen was a high school student in 2022 when he proved a result about a certain kind of number that had eluded mathematicians for decades. He proved that Carmichael numbers — a curious kind of ...