Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

Burleigh: Are students being equipped with a genuine understanding of math concepts or merely trained to follow steps?

Educators in a research partnership have found that early math screening is a helpful teaching tool that helps educators ...

Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most ...

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

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

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 ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

Introduction: This systematic review investigates the implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in K-12 mathematics education, offering a recent synthesis of current interventions. Methods: In ...

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #4 focuses on making math instruction more relevant to students. The real question students are asking is, “When am I ever going ...

(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 ...