OLYMPIA – A group of River Ridge High School parents clutched pencils, calculators and cups of coffee last week as they tackled something that can be daunting: beginning algebra. “It’s been so long ...

Algebra I should be a gateway—not gatekeeper—to students’ future academic success, in college and beyond. So says the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is issuing a challenge to developers and ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence system has successfully solved a decade-old algebra conjecture, originally proposed by American mathematician Dan Anderson in 2014. Developed by a Peking University ...

Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere. When Richard Rusczyk became interested in math ...

Analysts estimate that the market for data analytics — the industry term for sifting through mountains of data until you actually learn something useful from it — will hit $125 billion this year. This ...

Looking for some math problem-solving activities for middle school? Good, you’re at the right page then. Right before children enter Middle School (around the age of 11 or 12), they enter a critical ...

A Peking University-developed AI has solved a decade-old algebra conjecture posed in 2014 by US mathematician Dan Anderson, without human intervention. Using a dual-agent framework combining natural ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...