Zane Wubbena is a doctoral candidate in education at Texas State University. He studies cognition as it relates to early mathematics. As a former special education teacher, Wubbena wanted to know how ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

“How do I write an equation for exponential decay?” one of my students asked me recently. “I’m trying to predict when Indian elephants will become critically endangered.” I’m a high school math ...

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

Why is mathematics so complicated? It’s a question many students will ask while grappling with a particularly complex calculus problem — and their teachers will probably echo while setting or marking ...

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Attention parents: Whether you whizzed through calculus or struggled with long division in your school days, helping your children with their math homework now might prove to be a little tougher than ...