to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

The Calvin University Math Circle is an opportunity for 6th–8th grade students (typically 11–13 years old) to engage with exciting problems and topics in mathematics ... Parking is available in Lot 5 ...

Several formulas even take years, even decades, to complete and solve. But what about the hardest math problems that are ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... performance drops" between 17.5 percent to a massive 65.7 percent.

and/or the development of new or improved methods to meet the challenges of new problems. We view applied math as the application of mathematics to real-world problems with the dual goal of explaining ...

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 ...

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 ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems ... did in the classroom—and only about 5 percent of teachers who [did not receive ...

If you want to debate whether one investment yielding 4.5% is better than a less risky investment yielding 4.2%, you can usually count on an answer from Christine Benz, who writes a regular column ...