MathAData
Teaching high school mathematics through AI challenges
In response to the crisis of high school mathematics, which particularly affects disadvantaged students and girls (PISA studies), Professor Stéphane Mallat — professor at the Collège de France and at ENS — created the MathAData program.
Its ambition is threefold:
– to rekindle interest in mathematics and demonstrate its usefulness in solving concrete and motivating problems;
– to improve understanding of mathematics through digital experimentation, helping develop problem-solving, formalization skills, and intuition;
– to introduce the fundamentals of artificial intelligence.
The educational project:
✔️ Enabling mathematics to be taught in high school through through hands-on activities and problem-solving focused on AI: MathAData offers students a motivating and rewarding challenge aligned with their exam expectations.
✔️ Turning mathematics into a practical, lab-based subject (hands-on sessions), engaging students according to their level.
The objective with the ENS Foundation: scaling up:
✔️ Enriching the teaching sequence to maximize its impact and broaden curriculum coverage with several challenges tailored to students’ interests.
✔️ Developing asynchronous training mechanisms, an active community of teachers, and strong connections within the national education system.
✔️ Assessing the impact of MathAData through a randomized trial in partnership with IDEE, founded by Esther Duflo to assess educational programs.
Your donations:
In 2026–2027, you can support:
- the recruitment of an instructional designer;
- the recruitment of a development manager;
- the recruitment of a digital interface developer.
