By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions ...

Sometime in late 1780s, a math teacher in an elementary school in Brunswick, Germany, asked his students to add up the ...

Researchers at two universities designed and tested AI classmates, to help real middle schoolers practice math modeling. The characters have successfully engaged the students, who have praised their ...

Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together into perfect rectangles. As she moves the Fibonacci sequence puzzle around, ...

U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly accelerated after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere. When Richard Rusczyk became interested in math ...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers have had to rethink pretty much everything they do with students—and that includes how they give math tests. With many students working remotely, ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

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Mathematics is one of the most important subjects in a student’s academic journey, yet it is also one of the most challenging ...

I'm in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother's bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the ...