From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel ...

NUMBER NERVOUSNESS People anxious about doing math use certain brain networks differently when doing arithmetic, which suggests they might use different problem-solving strategies than people who ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

A simple arithmetic problem has left internet users scratching their heads - with only a few landing on the correct solution to this elementary school-level equation.

This Basic Math Problem Is Breaking the Internet How do you solve this simple arithmetic problem?

Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the ...

MRI studies show that doing arithmetic sends blood coursing through these regions of the brain. Interestingly, once we’re good at math, it takes less blood to get the job done.

How to solve complex, real-world problems using applied math Applied mathematicians have to find a balance between models that are realistic enough to be useful and simple enough to be implemented.

The mathematical problems generated by 509 middle school students, who were given a brief written "story-problem" description and asked to pose questions that could be answered using the information, ...

The technique achieved a 92.5 percent accuracy on the MultiArith dataset (a collection of mathematical problems specifically designed to test the ability of models to perform complex arithmetic ...

A Quora thread of difficult SAT math questions included one described as the "meanest test problem ever." Can you figure it out?