How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

The Nation’s Report Card released Wednesday revealed that a larger percentage of 9-year-old students were performing at or above “Level 200” for both reading math than students that were the same age ...

In my previous article, I wrote about how my daughter had finished all of elementary school math by around the fourth grade. Since then, I am often asked this question: “What kind of materials did you ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel laureates ...

If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT as a calculator, you’ve almost certainly noticed its dyscalculia: The chatbot is bad at math. And it’s not unique among AI in this regard. But tokenization isn’t ...

When you think of using technology for math learning, what usually comes to mind first? For many educators, it’s programs that consist of repetition to gain mastery. This type of learning is focused ...

Your grade school teacher probably didn’t show you how to add 20-digit numbers. But if you know how to add smaller numbers, all you need is paper and pencil and a bit of patience. Start with the ones ...

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When elementary students are given opportunities to write about what they learn, they’re more likely to understand and retain complex information. Yet, while the benefits of having students express ...

Figuring out a word problem. Calculating area and perimeter. Finding the measure of an unknown angle. All these tasks, and more, draw on an essential foundation of math knowledge, said Brian Bushart, ...

It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too A bumpy road is ahead for California’s proposed new math ...