Forget the Super Bowl, this is the Math Bowl. D.C.’s first ever “Middle School Math Championship.” D.C. school kids got up early on Saturday, their day off, to go to school voluntarily. What a ...

In this math tutorial, we look at the traditional methods of maths teaching and problem solving. We discuss how education often structures learning by showing problems, working through them, and then ...

The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor skills. It seems it can also help neurons with difficult cognitive tasks.

One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...