An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

Every week, my 7-year-old brings home worksheets with math problems and writing assignments. But what captivates me is what ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

More than 100 brilliant young Arnn Elementary Knights and their families stormed the "Math Knight" event Jan. 14 at the Sagamihara Housing Area ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

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

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

The Toronto Raptors have a math problem. In an NBA landscape that increasingly has gone three-point crazy over the past decade, the Raptors greatly prefer to launch shots of the two-point variety. As ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

(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 ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...