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 ...

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, ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

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

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

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 ...

I tried Google's new desktop app for Windows, and I'll never search the old way again ...

The answer from the machines was unfortunately not what Wall Street wanted to hear.

Scale is about exponential impact. It’s a curve, not a line. Hear me out. The best way to define scale is to look at it ...

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

As part of a deal to restore its federal funding, the university must give grants to local training programs. But critics of ...