Karen Ge of Naperville has run the math competition circuit for six years. The Naperville North High School junior has advanced from local to regional to national tournaments, become an Illinois state ...

It doesn’t seem funny enough to draw raucous laughter from a classroom of students at American Heritage School in Plantation, but you have to know the context. Junior Connor Gordon went to the board, ...

Carnegie Vanguard High School Sophomore Arnav Adhikari said that the typical math he learns in school is dull and boring. That’s why he wrote his own textbook. Titled the CUBRONIX Competitive Math ...

Most of the training for high-level math competitions happens outside of regular school hours, as I wrote recently. But at least one teacher in Florida has found a way around that—and it’s paid off to ...

OpenAI is at the center of competitive math drama. - Witthaya Prasongsin / Moment / Getty Images OpenAI announced its unreleased reasoning model won the gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad ...

A teenager in China performed so well in a math contest, she defeated A.I. — as well as students from prestigious universities including MIT, Stanford, and Princeton. The outpouring of support and ...

A group of students, after topping the state and national rankings on an international math contest, were recognized during an awards ceremony — which also marked the start of another competitive math ...

Buchholz High School senior Ellen Li is the first local student to place at MIT’s highly competitive Math Prize for Girls tournament. Over the weekend, she traveled to Boston with six other Buchholz ...

When I was in the fifth grade, Fridays always meant math drills. Our teacher stood over us with a stopwatch in one hand and a gym whistle in the other. At the first piercing blast, we would rush to ...

After learning of their gold-medal victory in the world’s most prestigious high-school mathematics competition—held recently in Hong Kong—six American teenagers engaged in a celebratory ritual ...