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Math disabilities can arise at nearly any stage of a child's scholastic development. While very little is known about the neurobiological or environmental causes of these problems, many experts ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really "thinking" or "reasoning" the way we understand those ...

But one task it’s not always so good at is solving math problems—and that poses a challenge for teachers and students who might try to use the technology in class. AI bots, such as ChatGPT ...

One of many mathematicians who share their perspectives in the film is Ismar Volic, a professor at Wellesley College and a founder, in 2019, of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy. He is also ...

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the intersection of learning, research, and technology. It’s often said that the best teachers don’t teach their students ...

Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real ...

(THE CONVERSATION) You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what ...