When my son was a baby, I swore I’d never let him watch PAW Patrol. At the time, I thought of it as the kind of TV show I didn’t want my child to become obsessed with: noisy and overstimulating. But ...
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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...
UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...
Math teachers at Utah's Hurricane High School are utilizing a nontraditional teaching approach to help their students succeed. The "Building Thinking Classrooms" strategy promotes collaboration.
Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...
Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...
The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...
At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...