Congratulations! High school graduation rates in your state are hitting all-time highs! But before you crack open the ...

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

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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 ...

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

There are more than 12 million elementary and middle school students from low-income families who are below grade level in ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Grades offer a snapshot of performance, but they rarely capture the full picture of a student’s understanding. Hidden gaps, ...

This story about math standards was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

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 ...