This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

If Ms. Smith’s 8th grade algebra class works through 10 word problems in an hour, and Ms. Jones’ class works through 10 equation problems during the same time, which class is likely to learn more math ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

What Can Stand in the Way of a Student's Mathematical Development? Math disabilities can arise at nearly any stage of a child's scholastic development. While very little is known about the ...

Remember the principal who spent a night on the roof of Coolidge Elementary after daring his students to hit one million math ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Felicia Tang, chief of staff at startup Exa. It has been edited for length and clarity. San Francisco is a super competitive job market, ...

Mom-of-four Amanda was looking through her daughter’s math homework when she came across the problem that had her baffled.