San Andreas – The 45th Annual Math Mini Bowl brought together 75 students from six schools across Calaveras County on April ...

How much of your school math do you actually remember?This quiz follows the structure of real classroom progression. It ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

A study reveals that emotional engagement significantly enhances students' math performance, highlighting the importance of managing feelings in learning.

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...

It’s been a while since most of us sat in a math classroom, right? This quiz takes you from Grade 1 basics all the way to serious school-level problems – and it’s tougher than it sounds. There are 36 ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right? When you purchase ...