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 ...

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 ...

Excerpted from "Taking Shape: Activities to Develop Geometric and Spatial Thinking" by Joan Moss, Catherine D. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes. Published by Pearson Canada Inc., 2016 ...

In a nutshell: OpenAI has unveiled a new series of AI language models named the "o1," specifically engineered to enhance reasoning capabilities, particularly for complex issues in science, coding, and ...

Apple researchers conducted a study on LLMs to evaluate their mathematical reasoning abilities and found that these models rely on probabilistic pattern-matching, not formal reasoning. They recorded ...

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 ...

A team of Apple researchers has questioned the formal reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), particularly in mathematics. They found that LLMs exhibit noticeable variance when ...

Microsoft has introduced a new set of small language models called Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning, which are described as "marking a new era for efficient AI." These ...