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

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.

The algorithms that drive artificial intelligence are rooted in sophisticated mathematical concepts. So, then, it might make sense that the marriage between AI and math instruction in K-12 schools ...

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

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

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.

Staring at a page of derivatives or integrals can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Your professor moves fast, the ...

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 ...