Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing students on their speed in solving problems — because it stresses them ...

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Marty told Newsweek he was baffled when his child's homework was returned with a series of "corrections" that didn't make sense.

Through its short chapters and fun illustrations, Look uses cats as the entry point to explain the workings and the relevance of math concepts such as the Pythagorean Theorem and Fibonacci’s Sequence ...

The new draft plan encourages schools to shift away from traditional methods for teaching math, such as memorization. It comes a year after the state adopted a literacy plan.

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Scientists at Cambridge University and Jerusalem's Hebrew University selected the problem to pose to ChatGPT because of its non-obvious solution. Since Plato's writing 2,400 years ago, scholars have ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

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