From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

“Math,” meanwhile, is reserved for problems involving signs, symbols and proofs — algebra, calculus, geometry and trigonometry. (In which case, we’ve got to side with Barbie.

NUMBER NERVOUSNESS People anxious about doing math use certain brain networks differently when doing arithmetic, which suggests they might use different problem-solving strategies than people who ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

This Basic Math Problem Is Breaking the Internet How do you solve this simple arithmetic problem?

A simple arithmetic problem has left internet users scratching their heads - with only a few landing on the correct solution to this elementary school-level equation.

In February, the high-tech consultant-turned-stay-at-home mom launched Bedtime Math, a website devoted to creating the sort of cachet for arithmetic — before the final tuck-in — that reading has.

Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the ...

If the math looks different than the way you once learned to do it, have your child show you his way of looking at and solving the problem.

How to solve complex, real-world problems using applied math Applied mathematicians have to find a balance between models that are realistic enough to be useful and simple enough to be implemented.

Researchers at Google's DeepMind built two different kinds of state-of-the-art neural nets to see if they could be trained to answer high school math problems. The result was an E grade, and a ...