As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ...

One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

From Sesame Street’s heartwarming lessons to Starfall’s playful phonics and PBS Kids’ problem-solving adventures, today’s children’s media blends fun with learning. Research shows high-quality ...

A new bill would require schools to screen all kindergartners, first- and second-graders for basic math skills. The idea is ...

From colorful board games to creative digital apps, playful learning is proving to be a powerful way to build young children’s math and reading skills. Research shows that blending fun, hands-on ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

The American workforce expects an unmet need for over a million employees to fill STEM-related jobs by 2030. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude. I can tell you the story of how math instruction is failing ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...