The answer to this mathematical brain teaser is NOT 40 - can YOU solve it in 30 seconds by remembering the special rule?

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

Something extraordinary has happened, even if we haven’t fully realized it yet: algorithms are now capable of solving ...

Watch as a frustrating math problem inspires a creative journey from paper to precision engineering. See how a simple multiplication error sparks the design of a mechanical DIY calculator, beautifully ...

Have you ever had the dream where you walk into a classroom on exam day and you’ve never attended the class? It’s an extremely unsettling dream, the kind that makes you wake up with a start ...

Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

Ten years after the "Mississippi Miracle," some senators say it's time for the legislature to focus on progress in elementary math classes.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It was December 10, 1971, and Richard Nixon was on the phone in the Oval Office. As usual, a tape deck installed in the presidential desk ...

There are three easy ways to wade through information overload. Librarians call this information literacy. Next time you read or hear something that doesn’t sound true, ask yourself these three ...