Edutainment games like Number Munchers or Big Thinkers! always felt like they had a sinister side. There’s something weird about someone emphatically telling you how cool learning is. As I ...

Wordle has inspired a fad of online puzzles, with new guessing game websites being set up for all kinds of different topics. Lewdle has you trying to figure out raunchy terms, Worldle is a ...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer ...

Aimed at children ages 6 to 9, Star Wars Math: Jabba’s Game Galaxy is hosted by favorite Star Wars’ characters including Teemto, Sebulba, Jabba the Hutt, and Watto. The reward for all the brain work ...

The New York Times announced last week that it will stop making Digits, a math puzzle game that debuted in beta in April. The last of these daily math puzzles will go up on August 8. Digits is a fun ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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 ...