Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

Amberlee Honsaker helps her daughter, Raegan, with math. Amberlee Honsaker remembers learning only one way to add or subtract in elementary school. It was the standard algorithm: stack numbers ...

In this video, we explain vectors and derivatives as essential math methods used in physics, showing how they describe motion, direction, and change. Clear explanations and examples help connect ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Seventy-three percent of Pima County eighth graders aren’t proficient in math, prompting teachers to find new strategies to help students succeed. The University of Arizona’s ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...

(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 ...

AWAY to solve linear differential equations by operational methods which avoid the introduction of arbitrary constants by taking direct account of the initial conditions was invented by Oliver ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...