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 holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through solving it.
Orphaned in China and adopted just before the pandemic, Chase Lovell now thrives in school, on the track and in a family that ...
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The latest NAEP results show eighth-grade math scores are flat — a bad sign after the historic eight-point drop in 2022.
Santa will be at Kump Education Center for a Centennial Celebration with a curious collection of 100 Christmas trees on Sunday, Dec. 21 from 1-3 p.m. at the 100-year-old brick house across from Kroger ...
The Smith-Cotton High School Math Team brought home second place overall Saturday, Dec. 6 at the Camdenton Relays.
For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...
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 ...
CAMBRIDGE, England — When two researchers at the University of Cambridge challenged ChatGPT with a classic puzzle from ancient Greece, they found that the model sometimes behaved less like a search ...
The Education Department has released a new Nation's Report Card. High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report ...
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 ...