Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

Scientists in China have leveraged AI to solve Isaac Newton's kissing number problem in dimensions 25-31, where work had stalled before.

Asking children to explain what they are building or allowing them time to explore without interruption can deepen the STEM learning embedded in play.

Abstract: Linear systems involved in engineering and scientific calculations can be more easily analyzed using similarity transformation. However, understanding the numerous abstract linear algebra ...

Visualize free body diagrams using vector math in Python to better understand forces and motion. This video shows how vectors represent forces, how they combine mathematically, and how Python helps ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

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Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence. By Alexander Nazaryan Artificial intelligence can write a ...