Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found that children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial ...

Major DARPA funding: UCLA researchers received $5 million over three years to develop AI that aids in mathematical proofs and discovery. Automating math reasoning: The ALPHA project will automate ...

Three years after calling for a reordering of elementary and middle school math curricula, the nation’s largest group of math teachers is urging a new approach to high school instruction, one that ...

A sigh of relief is a common reaction when parents find a program to help their children succeed in math. That response is something Anna Toneva experiences often when she gives tours of the Houston ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

Math is a notorious stumbling block that trips up students seeking college degrees. Every year, tens of thousands of young people fail to graduate because they can’t earn enough math credits. To help ...

While policymakers, researchers and educators decide how our children learn math, parents don’t seem to be anywhere in the mix. Yet parents can and should play a greater role in their children’s math ...

This week, two online math instructional developers found themselves in the crosshairs of private equity firms. One of these deals made for splashy headlines: Dreambox Learning’s $130 million ...