We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change. The world has learned two things in ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

What’s the smartest way to help kids master math? A groundbreaking new report says it’s not about picking sides in the age-old battle between memorizing multiplication tables and exploring math ...

This study investigates how four prospective teachers interpret and use textbooks while learning to teach mathematics during university coursework and practicum teaching. Results indicate that ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Math is hard for most. And for decades, math attrition has been a challenge in education, including higher education. While new knowledge has been discovered in the field of ...

Back in 2019, Po-Shen Loh—an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and national coach of the U.S. International Mathematics Olympiad—taught the world a new way of solving quadratic ...

Math has never been my strong suit. I opted out of it at every turn, particularly in college, where I enrolled in linguistics to fulfill my quantitative reasoning requirement. I even tried to overcome ...