Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But ...

For 23 years, I’ve taught high school math. And for 23 years, I’ve been told by people that they either are a “math person” or they are not. I get it: Math isn’t easy. Movies and TV shows make it look ...

We’re seeing some new developments in AI models that are shedding light on one of the technology’s most prominent gaps – its relative inability to do math well. Some experts note that AI is ...

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Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Aaron Jawson regularly spends time reteaching the basics to his sixth grade math students. They often have a bit of a complex ...

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Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Mental math shortcuts suggest future STEM performance—and gender is a significant predictor What is 29 + 14?

The future of math education will begin with the divorce of a very long-term marriage between math learning and grade-level instruction. “The Future of Math,” my chapter in School Rethink 2.0, ...