The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

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These deceptively simple math problems stump even the smartest people—and it's not because they're too hard. It’s because smart minds tend to overthink. Think you can beat the trap? ‘Un-Australian’: ...

PEMDAS has plagued many in elementary school math classes, but how many Americans remember how to use the acronym to solve problems? A simple sixth-grade math equation went viral on X for stumping ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Series: Reading: Part Two of Two (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 241-251 (11 pages) This purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity ...

Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Finnish adults score the highest in literacy, math, and problem-solving skills, while Portugal, Poland, Italy and Lithuania fall below the OECD average in all three competences. A new OECD study shows ...

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 the page.

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...