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 ...

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 ...

Can one learn linear algebra solely by solving problems? Paul Halmos thinks so, and you will too once you read this book. The Linear Algebra Problem Book is an ideal text for a course in linear ...

FrontierMath's performance results, revealed in a preprint research paper, paint a stark picture of current AI model ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally ... told me that the district selected ...

The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconn ...

A team of AI researchers and mathematicians affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has developed a ...

"We let him work on it a bit before we recognized his deep breaths as he was getting stressed and starting to tear up," Patrick and Kitty told Newsweek.

They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but viewers don’t need a background in math to appreciate the completed pieces. Other mathematical works and figures from across the ...

Organizers of a Chinese math competition say a vocational school student who finished near the top in the first round was helped by her teacher in violation of the rules.

The article was updated March 5 to include the letter from high-tech executives supporting the Algebra II requirement. It also clarifies that AP Statistics is for students who have completed Algebra ...

I’m just not a math person?” People are reluctant to say they are illiterate but proud to share their low math identity. We tend to think of math as a subject that’s accessible only to certain types ...