FOR ONE school year, college students who had taken a problem-solving class taught by former Ateneo president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, SJ, and myself, volunteered to coach talented elementary and ...

Think Through Math is a web-based program that allows elementary aged students to practice and prepare for the often intense state math tests that they will endure in later years. At this critical age ...

Under Common Core, parents are likely to see some unfamiliar terms on their children’s elementary-school math homework. Here are some examples drawn from New York state’s math curriculum: –Grade 2 ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

Earlier this year we reported how Google was testing displaying practice homework problems in the search results. Now this feature is fully live in Google Search and Google has come up with new ...

Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had ...

Sam Mitchell, 17, is a senior at Glenbrook North High School. This summer, he attended the Math Olympiad Program, a competitive math problem solving program where he was one of only 60 students in the ...

If Ms. Smith’s 8th grade algebra class works through 10 word problems in an hour, and Ms. Jones’ class works through 10 equation problems during the same time, which class is likely to learn more math ...

Biology is the scientific study of life. Chemistry is the science that examines chemicals and their interactions with one another. Physics includes motion, force, temperature, and sound waves—all ...