1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

Jose Medrano and Rebeca Zapata shuddered at what their daughter, Miranda Zapata, brought home one recent day: fifth grade math homework. “Since it’s something I haven’t practiced recently, I feel like ...

T he primary trust fund that supports Social Security is expected to run out of money in 2033. If Congress doesn’t adjust the ...

A Copperas Cove Bulldawg is among the nation’s brightest stars in math. Ellie Carpenter is a fourth-grade student at Fairview ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

Rather than study how to use AI, students in this machine learning class work with the math that makes the AI work.

The Senate passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act despite the government shutdown, sending it to ...

Far from being limited to school, learning mathematics also begins at home. In a study published in Child Development, scientists reveal that simple playful activities done as a family can strengthen ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress ...