Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...

In a bid to improve state test scores, New York City public schools have embarked on a major undertaking to standardize math instruction across its middle and high schools — but some teachers have ...

At Del Rio STEM Academy, a magnet school in Oceanside Unified School District, first-grade teacher Katherine Sebastian uses her hands as she talks through math problems. Her hands come together in a ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...