They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Abstract: For blind source separation (BSS) of Gaussian graph signals, an algorithm called GraDe (graph decorrelation) has been previously introduced. In the current paper, it is shown that GraDe does ...

Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, three years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. Only 53 per cent of ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Four years ago, I was given a fantastic opportunity to be a math coach for a primary years program. But when I started, there was no framework to work within, no script to follow. I was starting from ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The University of Edinburgh provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Wherever you stand on his political views, Charlie Kirk’s murder is a tragedy on a personal level. He was just 31 and a ...

Four years ago, just before the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the group banned the sale of children’s toys in Kandahar province. It was a sign of the group’s draconian approach. As the ...