Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix ...

Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster than ever before by eliminating a previously unknown inefficiency, reports Quanta Magazine. This could eventually ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it.

The film features a conversation between a student named Bernard and another person helping him with his math homework. They discuss various math problems, including multiplication and division, while ...

Lynda Colgan receives funding from The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario and The Mathematics Knowledge Network (KNAER). Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT as a calculator, you’ve almost certainly noticed its dyscalculia: The chatbot is bad at math. And it’s not unique among AI in this regard. But tokenization isn’t ...