Several local students earned top national and state rankings in this year’s Math Kangaroo mathematics competition, placing them among the highest-performing young problem solvers in the country. The ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

Math has a unique relationship with AI. Unlike subjects where answers live in shades of gray, math problems demand precision. A solution is either correct or it isn’t. That makes accuracy the ...

Discover how Adobe Acrobat PDF Spaces helped me finally make math manageable by organizing notes, problems, and references in one clear workflow. This video shows how better PDF organization and ...

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language understanding and demonstrated strong problem-solving abilities. Despite these successes, most LLMs still struggle with ...

Summary: A new study shows how math helps explain why babies nap erratically, teens stay up late, and older adults wake earlier. Researchers expanded the classic two-process sleep model by adding the ...

The problem with social media in-jokes is they don’t stay funny for long. Someone takes them too seriously, then they become overblown commentaries on society as a whole, and then a media outlet goes ...

Prematurity is the leading cause of perinatal mortality and the morbidity among children under the age of 5. The prevalence of preterm birth is between 5 and 18% worldwide. Approximately 30% of ...

Although working memory (WM) is an important factor in mathematical problem solving (MPS), it remains unclear how well WM relates to MPS. Thus, we aimed to determine this relationship by using a ...

For 14 years I began my high school math classes the same way every day: with a warm-up problem. Most teachers know the drill. I would stand at the door, Harry Wong style, and greet students by name.

Successfully solving mathematical word problems requires both mental representation skills and reading comprehension skills. In Realistic Math Education (RME), however, students primarily learn to ...