Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no ...

What stands out about Sarah LeVeck's teaching approach in a time when middle schoolers are struggling with math?

AI-driven math hints do more than nudge students toward a correct answer--they help students develop confidence and ...

Teachers can facilitate positive learning experiences to help students develop favorable perceptions about their math skills.

Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

By Megan Bartels The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities ...

The fact that the student was able to count by tens and then add two, rather than counting each square up to 42, is an example of number sense. Other examples include understanding the size of numbers ...

Keep it natural The strongest link between parent talk about math and a child’s math performance was detected when researchers didn’t tell parents to do a math activity. Parents who naturally brought ...

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s languages in 2015 estimated that of the 6,880 languages for which ...

For example, a tokenizer might treat the number “380” as one token but represent “381” as a pair of digits (“38” and “1”). But tokenization isn’t the only reason math’s a weak ...

The median is the middle number in a sorted ascending or descending list. It can be more descriptive of the dataset than the average. It’s quite different from the mean.

In this paper, qualitative and quantitative methods are used to compare and analyze the content of “circle” in primary school mathematics textbooks published by People’s Education Press and Beijing ...