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

Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a new study shows.

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State Instructor II Kim Walters is using her Math in Your World class to teach students that math is more than problems in a textbook — it’s ...

The United States has a math problem. The most recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that U.S. students ...

Ever dreamt of solving math problems in your head with the speed of a calculator? Mental math might seem challenging, but ...

Scientists probe the effects of ChatGPT on brain function and cognitive abilities, raising concerns about its impact on critical thinking and creativity ...

Epoch AI hired Elliot Glazer, who had recently finished his math Ph.D., to join the new collaboration for the benchmark, dubbed FrontierMath, in September 2024.

In the mid-1970s, teachers fretted that cheap calculators might strip students of their abilities to do simple math. More recently, the rise of search engines spurred fears of “digital amnesia.” ...

Addition is the process of finding the total (or sum) by combining numbers. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between numbers by taking one away from another. These are crucial ...

Each letter represents a math symbol in the order they are meant to be done when they come up in a problem. Anything inside parentheses (P) should be worked out first.

The work demonstrates the important role of experimentation and play in research mathematics. It also has potential practical applications, such as in the design of self-righting spacecraft. “I didn’t ...

The Challenge: Using exactly four 4s and any math operations (like +, -, ×, ÷, square roots, decimals, parentheses, etc.), make every number from 1 to 10. Example: 5 = (4 × 4 + 4) ÷ 4 Step 2 ...