Today’s teaching methods prioritize creative problem-solving over traditional formulas and equations, but these changes may ...

to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

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A seemingly straightforward math problem aimed at 5th-grade students has left many adults confused after it appeared on the social media platform Reddit. The task is to determine the total number ...

But the latest round of state test scores shows that very few of them do. Just 7% of test-takers passed the state’s eighth grade math test, part of the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program. One ...

How many kiwis does Oliver have? It’s the same math problem, right? And of course even a grade schooler would know that even a small kiwi is still a kiwi. But as it turns out, this extra data ...

Fundamental problems about multiplication — about, say, how numbers factor into primes — suddenly become much deeper and more challenging as soon as addition enters the picture. One of math’s biggest ...

This program solves simple math and physics problems stated in English.

It’s not Tuesday quite yet, but Tuesday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle is live, and while it’s not quite as hard as the last couple days, it still has some tricky tricks up its puzzley sleeve.

Gabriela Hasbun for The New York Times When Aristotle is asked to answer math problems, it can check the answers. These might be simple questions like “What is 2+2?” Or they might be more ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems ... across the grade bands and across contexts. How can teachers decide when to bring ...