When children are presented with a math word problem, for example, they must identify the overarching pattern, and link it to similar problems in their previous experience. Finally, memory for ...

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 ...

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

Amy Banks, who is listed as a 7th-grade math teacher at Woodbury School in the Salem School District reportedly used the ...

Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and assistant professor Sarah Eason, both in the Purdue University Department of ...

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 ...

Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy ...

The folks in Harrisburg’s new “group violence intervention” (or GVI) unit didn’t know exactly who they would meet during ...

A grant from the National Science Foundation’s Racial Equity In STEM Education program will support a project led by ...

Hans-Karl Eder is a German mathematician, educator and author who also works as a MINT ambassador to get young people interested in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology.

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

Mathematicians are calling for the reversal of loosened teacher certification requirements over concerns that new additions will be ill-equipped to teach numeracy skills. “The people who are going to ...