For a few months now, the mathematical world has been abuzz. Rumors abound of a new proof, monumental in length and virtually ...

some of which they hear nowhere outside of the math classroom. These students have difficulty understanding written or verbal directions or explanations, and find word problems especially ...

When children are presented with a math word ... thus, problems are equally difficult to pin down. Educators do, nevertheless, identify sets of expected milestones for a given age and grade ...

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.

A sharp improvement in math proficiency by Buffalo Public Schools' economically disadvantaged third graders last year ...

He is only 14 years old- a time most kids are faced with 8th grade math problems, entertaining their first middle school ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... set saw a performance drop between 0.3 percent and 9.2 percent.

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...

The math-learning platform founded by Neelakantha Bhanu, the world’s fastest human calculator, is making big strides in ...

That approach doesn’t take in very much information, so math can do very little with it and therefore makes mistakes. The basic problem is that ... their second and third choices, and so on.

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, ...