Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

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

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

At Izetta Sparks Elementary, mornings are for math. "Mrs. Newcomb went to the candy store and bought 43 bags of sour gummy worms..." said Alyssa Newcomb while standing at the smart board, introducing ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

An 11-year-old Ridgeview student’s idea became a math club that placed in the top 10% nationally in its first year of ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

(TNS) — Student struggles in math remain a major area of concern in K-12 schools as educators search for ways to get students on track with academic recovery and keep them engaged in learning overall.

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 ...

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns ...

The Maryland State Board of Education has voted to change the way math is taught in the state. Under the plan approved by the board, math curricula in the state’s 24 public school systems would be ...