Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

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Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now–but it hasn’t, as ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...