In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

A children’s mathematics camp will host part of an international competition on the island next year. Planet Math will hold the trials in February, with successful youngsters getting the chance to ...

Harmonic raises third funding in 14 months from insiders Focus on AI's math and reasoning capabilities Plans to explore commercial use cases in software development Nov 25 (Reuters) - Harmonic, an ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

For example, to round the number to the 2nd digit after the decimal, we can multiply the number by 100, call the rounding function and then divide it back. let num = 1.23456; alert( Math.round(num * ...

Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...