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A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

A brain teaser challenge is a type of IQ test that mostly involves solving a puzzle, cracking a code, finding a hidden object ...

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to ...

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

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Cassidy has asked 35 institutions about incoming students' math abilities, citing a "crisis" in K-12 math education.

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