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Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to support students who struggle, expanding access to advanced courses in later ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

Does this sound familiar? You are 45 minutes into your 70-minute math class. One of your high-achieving students—let’s call him Marcus—finishes his math practice before anyone else. On most days, he ...

Michael Slipenkyj is partly supported by a Mitacs internship with Vretta Inc., a Canadian educational technology company. Heather P. Douglas has developed an early numeracy screener that is being used ...

Functional math goals often show up in IEP meetings as an afterthought—or worse, as a point of disagreement. You may see vague language about “real-world skills,” goals that sound appropriate but ...