The Museum of Illusions in Santa Monica is where your eyeballs go to get thoroughly embarrassed by their own incompetence.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

It’s amazing! 🥰🥰” When I searched for it again, the ad had been taken down; the next time I saw it was as an exhibit in a class-action lawsuit against Kalshi that alleges, in part, that the site is ...

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...