These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we can reduce fear.

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI. When you purchase ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

The hype around generative AI (GenAI) is undeniable. Tools like ChatGPT have captivated the public imagination, demonstrating an impressive ability to generate human-like text, create content and ...