Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...