Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

When high school physics teacher Eric J. Koser wants his students to learn about motion and force, they use a conventional device called a ticker-tape timer that prints dots related to the time it ...

Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...

A study that examined 30 years of standardized test data from the very highest-scoring seventh graders has found that performance differences between boys and girls have narrowed considerably, but ...

From board games to AI-powered apps, gamified math learning is proving to be more than just fun—it’s an effective way to improve skills and motivation. Research shows that even short, playful sessions ...

A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' ...