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Math is not always learned from textbooks. Sometimes, the best lessons begin around a kitchen table. A simple family activity ...

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EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities (Rebroadcast) While policymakers, researchers and educators decide how our children learn math, parents don’t ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Math offers us lots of problem-solving techniques that help us distill the essence of questions. Many of us will be familiar with reading a math problem, and needing to figure out what's being asked, ...

Back in 2019, a group of computer scientists performed a now-famous experiment with far-reaching consequences for artificial intelligence research. At the time, machine vision algorithms were becoming ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...