An intervention found that explicit teaching of mathematical reasoning leads to progress in the subject – but how does it work? Jasmine Norden asks the experts The ability to reason mathematically is ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new ...

There’s a curious contradiction at the heart of today’s most capable AI models that purport to “reason”: They can solve routine math problems with accuracy, yet when faced with formulating deeper ...