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.

Sylvia Weber-Russell, Mark D. LeBlanc, Learning by Seeing by Doing: Arithmetic Word Problems, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2004), pp. 197-220 ...

Math is one of those things that unites all of us: students with their homework to do, teachers with their lesson plans, and ...

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 ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as ...

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.

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