If these books aren’t enough to make you smarter, faster, more efficient, or more learned, then head to your favorite bookstore or library and ask any smarty-pants on the staff for help. There, you’ll ...

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, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

It's time to break out your number two pencil and mathematics skills to see if you can solve a math equation plaguing hundreds online. A simple math problem was recently shared on X by the account ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Grand Island Public Schools will adopt Eureka Math Squared as its new K-5 math curriculum starting in 2026-27.

Using strong data to measure implementation and outcomes — and then adjusting pathways based on that data. “Without strong ...

For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...