CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frustrated math students may have a good excuse -- some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers ...

“How do I write an equation for exponential decay?” one of my students asked me recently. “I’m trying to predict when Indian elephants will become critically endangered.” I’m a high school math ...

Recent studies show that the less likely someone is to use procedural solutions, the better they tend to be at more abstract problem-solving—and gender is a significant predictor. In a new study, ...

Zane Wubbena is a doctoral candidate in education at Texas State University. He studies cognition as it relates to early mathematics. As a former special education teacher, Wubbena wanted to know how ...

A 3D-printed decuplet crystal, skeleton, and nerves of a big algebra designed by Daniel Bedats. Printed with the Stratasys J750 3D printer at ISTA’s Miba Machine Shop. Symmetry is not just a question ...

The chatbot finally gets multimodal learning.

Jumping from high school to college-level statistics and geometry can feel like learning a new language. The concepts get more abstract, the formulas become more complex, and the homework piles up ...

Visit any Math classroom in India, and you are sure to see a teacher scribbling hard on their blackboard, solving a Math problem, and students copying the steps religiously. There is very little ...