Student mathematicians spent Saturday crunching numbers and solving equations at Maria Carrillo High School’s library as part ...
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — Inside the Kehr Union Ballroom on Commonwealth University's Bloomsburg campus, high school students from 18 area schools in the area put on their thinking caps and solve math ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...
To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...
For 23 years, I’ve taught high school math. And for 23 years, I’ve been told by people that they either are a “math person” or they are not. I get it: Math isn’t easy. Movies and TV shows make it look ...
Recent studies show that the less likely someone is to use procedural solutions, the better they tend to be at more abstract problem-solving—and gender is a significant predictor. In a new study, ...