Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a ...

Kevin Dykema, a math instructional coach in Mattawan, Mich., said he likes to present a word problem that uses a softball or baseball diamond to teach the Pythagorean theorem.

Science & Technology We still have a representation problem for women in physics – and Canada is no exception A study finds Canada ranks last for women’s representation among senior authors in Nature ...

Taxation without representation continues to be an issue because Washington, D.C., residents are taxed without representation, and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens who must pay federal taxes with ...

Explicit teaching of math-specific vocabulary builds students’ background knowledge, so they can better understand the context of math word problems. Explicit teaching of language in general is also ...

• On the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), it solved 53.3% of problems, placing among the top 20% of high school competitors.

Teachers can employ several strategies, like using different visual representations, to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National ...

Digital Promise, Learning Science Research, Washington, DC, United States This study assesses the capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-4o in solving mathematics problems from the National ...

Article citations More>> Acosta-Tello, E. (2010). Making Mathematics Word Problems Reliable Measures of Student Mathematics Abilities. Journal of Mathematics Education, 3, No. 1. has been cited by the ...

How to make math education more equitable In 2023, I collaborated with other educators from Connecticut’s professional math education associations to author an equity position statement.

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past. By Steve Lohr In the school year that ended recently, one class of learners stood out as a seeming ...