In June, a 17-year-old fashion design student from a tiny Chinese village became a national sensation by beating thousands of elite graduates to reach the final of a prestigious global math contest.

China entered its first team into the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious math competition for pre-university students, in 1985. Four years later ...

HONG KONG — A teenager in China performed so well in a math contest, she defeated artificial intelligence — as well as students from prestigious universities including MIT, Stanford and Princeton.

A fashion major from a vocational high school in rural China has amazed the nation by outshining elite students in a global math contest – but the teenager’s underdog story has now been mired by ...

Wang Hong, a 35-year-old Chinese mathematician at New York University, has taken two of mathematics' most prestigious prizes in the space of four days, sealing her status as a frontrunner for the 2026 ...

What kind of education best helps students learn math? In the province of Ontario, the most recent provincial standardized results (2024–25) show modest improvement in elementary mathematics ...