AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have allegedly pulled off what no one thought possible—they built ...

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

A study published in the journal Nature yesterday, Wednesday, February 5, 2025, titled Children’s Arithmetic Skills Do Not Transfer Between Applied and Academic ...

Intuitively solving a problem like multiplying 43 by 11, they might first multiply 43 by 10, and then add 43, reaching the ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

Study finds Indian school students lack real-world math skills, highlighting need for improved teaching strategies.

Being good at math on the go, as seen in Indian kids working in markets, does not often translate into classroom arithmetic, ...

How do you calculate the area of a rhombus? That phrase is what you call a micro-horror story, folks.  Even hearing it at the ...

For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this even fit?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem a ...