For nearly 60 years, the “moving sofa problem,” a long-standing mathematical puzzle, remained unsolved. Last year, a Korean ...

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While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

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Contextualizing math is the path forward for math instruction across the country--making it relevant help students grasp ...

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Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

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 ...