A bafflingly graded third-grade math quiz caused a firestorm on Reddit last week and has spread across the internet, causing several people to question Common Core math standards and the teacher's ...

Statistics and geometry can seem disconnected from other areas of math, experts say, and teachers often get less preservice training in how to convey these concepts in the classroom. As a result, ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 ...

A challenging brainteaser tests critical thinking with a math problem of finding the missing value: 3 - 3 x 6 + 2 = ?. Solvers have seven seconds to use the BODMAS rule. Frequent practice of such ...

ORGANISERS of the 2011 UWI/Sterling Asset Management Jamaican Math Olympiad have reported a 45 per cent increase over last year in the number of students entering the qualifying round and sitting the ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused, mastery-based learning, even with limited use.

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