Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

The algorithms that drive artificial intelligence are rooted in sophisticated mathematical concepts. So, then, it might make sense that the marriage between AI and math instruction in K-12 schools ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

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A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...

An 11-year-old Ridgeview student’s idea became a math club that placed in the top 10% nationally in its first year of ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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