Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

Students across Minnesota will be competing in a statewide tournament on Monday — but instead of testing athletic skill, they will be working out math problems. The Minnesota State High School ...

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

When students create a visual resource to scaffold problem-solving, they can approach independent work with more confidence ...

National group cites 4 pillars to math education for young kids. A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for ...

To understand why, the team looked at the MRI scans.

Student mathematicians spent Saturday crunching numbers and solving equations at Maria Carrillo High School’s library as part ...

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.

Microsoft Math Solver is a free tool that uses AI to recognize both printed and handwritten math. It’s particularly strong with geometric proofs and interactive graphing, and it pulls learning ...

In the late 1980s, the Biosphere 2 project sealed a team of scientists inside a self-sustaining miniature world. Their goal was to see if a closed system could support human life, serving as a ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...