Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has made devastating cuts to mathematics funding. Mathematics research typically requires few materials. To explore the secrets of prime numbers, investigate ...

Playing number board games for just ten minutes helps young children build strong early math skills supporting economic ...

The DREME Network was created in 2014 to advance the field of early mathematics research and improve young children’s opportunities to develop math skills. The Network focuses on math from birth ...

Carrie Stark always relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. Alas, the kids had fun, as AP reported, but the ...

Students from around the country participated in a unique, immersive program at FIU designed to improve access to research for undergraduates of diverse backgrounds including those who are typically ...

This summer, a popular Yale program that provides undergraduates with valuable mathematics research experience will undergo some intriguing addition of its own. For the first time, the Summer ...

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A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...