Nous Research's open-source Nomos 1 AI model scored 87/120 on the notoriously difficult Putnam math competition, ranking second among 4,000 human contestants with just 30 billion parameters.

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September 18, 2025 - Meet Allison Saiki, who teaches students how to manage money, pay rent and open retirement accounts, with a class currency she calls "Saiki Cents." While policymakers, researchers ...

Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

Math riddles are a great way to practice basic mathematical concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and proportions. Solving these ...

Solving math riddles is fun, especially when you get them right. But did you know that solving them can also improve your brain power? In fact, research shows that practicing math riddles helps ...

At one point during this year’s SXSWedu—a slick Austin conference heavy on marketing for education technology—an audience member stood and asked a panel of Texas lawmakers the question most in the ...