Fortunately, these easy-to-remember math tricks will ... the fraction of 63/99 to 7/11—and done. Not everyone has their 25 ...

While numbers one through five are easy for most kids to remember, six and up often pose a problem ... each represent 7, etc.

Math disabilities can arise at nearly any stage of a child's scholastic development. While very little is known about the neurobiological or environmental causes of these problems, many experts ...

Fundamental problems about multiplication — about, say, how numbers factor into primes — suddenly become much deeper and more challenging as soon as addition enters the picture. One of math’s biggest ...

to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems ... across the grade bands and across contexts. How can teachers decide when to bring ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the intersection of learning, research, and technology. It’s often said that the best teachers don’t teach their students ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... between 17.5 percent to a massive 65.7 percent. It doesn’t take a scientist ...

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While the deeper concepts of symbolic learning and pattern reproduction are a bit in the weeds, the basic concept of their research is very easy ... math problem, right? And of course even a grade ...