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Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

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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.

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

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...