Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

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 ...

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

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

North Carolina lawmakers are interested in funding more teacher leadership roles, improving math skills among young students and continuing to monitor the impacts of stricter cellphone policies on ...

Setting limits gets easier when you know which behaviors actually need one. Ginott's three-zone framework gives parents a ...

This Spring, PBS KIDS is refreshing its high-quality programming, not just to entertain our kids but also to expand their emotional intelligence. Animated preschool series Work It Out Wombats! returns ...