Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

This Houston County school's award-winning “Problem of the Month” uses real-world puzzles to build critical thinking, earning ...

Michigan’s State School Aid Act required school districts to administer benchmark assessments in reading and math to all K-8 students in the fall and spring of each school year between 2020-21 and ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Classes are cancelled at Dennison Elementary School on Thursday while Jefferson County Public Schools investigates a strong odor that has persisted inside the building this week. In ...

Third-graders celebrated for critical thinking at Weston Elementary School were, front row, Addison Graham, Love Louissaint, Beckham Sward; back row, Noah Stangle, Eddie Dickson, Jack Beckley, ...

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 ...

This video is no longer available. After students eagerly entered Amanda Blevins’ classroom at Mosaic Elementary on Thursday afternoon, she returned a graded assignment and then shifted their ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...