Last week, Last Word asked if week 11 in the Big 12 would serve as an elimination week for some possible contending teams.

A few straightforward shifts and strategies can help create math classrooms where even the most reticent learners find their ...

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 ...

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

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 a plurality winner isn’t necessarily the ...

Changing the Buckets The University might instead consider changing the number of grade categories within the distribution. For example, why not switch from using 12 buckets — A through F — to ...

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In classrooms with mixed abilities, students reading a word problem out loud in groups can help, said David Dai, an 8th and 9th grade math instructor at the Barton Academy for Advanced World ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems, a common benchmark for testing LLMs. Then they slightly altered the wording without ...