West Valley School eighth-grader Sawyer Schneider rounded off the state Montana Mathcounts competition with a ticket to nationals in May. Ranking third out of 65 at the state competition held at ...

In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math. Though AI models have been trained to emit the correct answer and to recognize that ...

The relationship between career choice and academic achievement associated with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been extensively studied from the Educational ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

This paper explores whether mathematical education has effects on brain development from the perspective of brain MRIs. While biochemical changes in the left middle front gyrus region of the brain ...

Is there anything more satisfying than making something creative? A quilt, a webpage, a decoration, an invention? As a child, do you remember the pride you felt when you showed your parents a LEGO ...

Each year, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction analyzes where students, as a group, have trouble in math on the WASL. Here’s a sampling from this year’s analysis: • Algebraic sense, ...