Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

MUMBAI-Akshay Kumar, who is receiving a positive response to his work in the recently released film ‘Jolly LLB 3’, has shared the maths behind his disciplined life. He recently graced the season ...

There is a test that is simultaneously praised as "the world's most perfect multiple-choice exam" and criticized as "the main culprit for ruining ...

As humans, we typically want more choices. But more choices can be confusing. It is easier to choose an active fund from 10 funds than from 100 funds. With continual entry of new asset management ...

Some math problems are designed in ways that reward simplicity rather than analytical depth. Research shows that highly intelligent individuals are more likely to overthink these problems, leading to ...

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Some math problems don’t reward intelligence — they exploit it. Researchers have found that high-IQ individuals often overthink certain questions, triggering cognitive biases that push them toward ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

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 ...

Introduction: The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has prompted their exploration in educational contexts, particularly in high-stakes standardized tests such as Kazakhstan's Unified ...