A hands-on, integrated approach has the potential to transform math from a gatekeeper into a gateway for STEM opportunities ...

Future teachers are likely to teach as they were taught—which can be problematic, researchers wrote in a recent study, “because most teachers experienced school mathematics as a set of disconnected ...

WIESBADEN, Germany -- Students at Aukamm Elementary are getting hands-on experience in mathematical concepts that will lay the foundation for their future math learning, thanks to an enterprising ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

The author tries to show some causes of failures in the creation of mathematical concepts. One of them is stiffening of concept cores. It makes impossible identification of untypical exemplars of a ...

To truly become proficient in math, students need a solid foundation built on conceptual understanding. However, the benchmark assessments students take at the end of the year—designed to measure ...

The concept of zero may seem easy to you, but many human societies struggled with the idea. However, some of the world's smartest animals understand zero, and now that group includes the honey bee.

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

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Scientists have discovered honeybees can understand the concept of zero, putting them in an elite club of clever animals that can grasp the abstract mathematical notion of nothing. Scientists have ...