Are thoughts more fundamental to our reality than particles? "Well, how can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" Dorothy asked the scarecrow. And after a moment's glance toward the sky, he replied ...

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

Nineteenth-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss used to joke that he could calculate before he could talk. Maybe it was no joke. Recent work casts doubt on the notion that language ...

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Solving word problems is a key component of math curriculum in primary schools. One must have acquired basic language skills to make sense of word problems. So why do children still find certain word ...

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.

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...