WORCESTER — Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Erin Ottmar hopes that when she is finished with her project, middle school teachers may be able to better understand how their students think of ...

An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. The elementary-grade problem looks simple enough to solve in seconds, but has tripped up the masses. The basic ...

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In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

Math is a subject that seems intimidating at first glance, but once you get into it, it becomes much easier. Math is everywhere around us. From simple addition to complex calculus, mathematics plays ...

A Canadian math teacher has amazed TikTok users for her incredibly easy trick for multiplying any number by 11. The teacher, who has earned a huge following across social media platforms under the ...

Can you associate a colour with mathematics? If you usually end up tearing your hair trying to solve equations and recalling formulae, your answer is most likely to be red. But creators of our ...

Young children can perform certain kinds of math operations before ever receiving any kind formal math training, a new study reports. The finding suggests children have an inborn intuition about math ...