Dar es Salaam. In a country where many students fear mathematics and view it as one of the toughest school subjects, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (IED, ...

The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mildly electrically stimulating ...

What stands out about Sarah LeVeck's teaching approach in a time when middle schoolers are struggling with math?

David Shilkitus believes that math education should do more than just prepare students for tests—it should prepare them to think critically and solve problems in the real world. In grades 3 through 8, ...

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Math + art = an exhibit dedicated to the beauty of numbers and patterns. It's called "Intersections: Math, Art, Truth, Humanity." "Which spells out 'math'," said Tracy ...

In real trees in nature, that number is usually somewhere between 1.5 and 3, depending on the tree. But in art, it’s all up to the artist and how they depicted their trees.

Microsoft is doubling down on the potential of small language models (SLMs) with the unveiling of rStar-Math, a new reasoning technique that can be applied to small models to boost their ...

Word problems can press students to think more critically and make sense of the “ math story ” being told to them. This inherent quality of word problems also turns them into a cognitive ...

Yet even the smallest version of Qwen2-Math, the 1.5 billion parameter version, performs admirably and close to the model more than 4 times its size scoring at 84.2% on GSM8Kand 44.2% on college math.

Science Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong Teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on ‘key words.’ By Sarah Carr / The Hechinger Report ...