We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

OpenAI has also today released its the ChatGPT-o1-mini AI large language model, designed to be a cost-effective alternative to the o1-preview while maintaining strong performance in reasoning tasks.

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Thank you for enrolling in the Education Week Mini-Course: Teaching Math. In this free five-week email course, you’ll learn research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. Expect more ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Over the last week, OpenAI’s place atop the AI model hierarchy has been heavily challenged by Chinese model DeepSeek. Today, OpenAI struck back with the public release of o3-mini, its latest simulated ...