Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

In a paper recently published in Nature Physics, researchers from Drexel University took a closer look at the most successful ...

In the study, 299 undergraduate students between the ages of 18 and 33 were asked to solve a series of compound remote associates (CRA) problems, a standard test of creative problem-solving in which ...

Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is preparing to launch a major redesign of its BUS-K201 Foundations of Business Information Systems and Decision Making course this fall, with a new ...

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 add, starting with ...