Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly ...

It's already been determined that male math bias exists, but this is the first time that we're seeing gender bias directly ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

It’s an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has made devastating cuts to mathematics funding. Mathematics research typically requires few materials. To explore the secrets of prime numbers, investigate ...

Christopher Brownell has been named the new chair of the Department of Mathematics and Science in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS) following a competitive search. A longtime mathematics ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Playing number board games for just ten minutes helps young children build strong early math skills supporting economic ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...