Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

This set of posters is designed to help students develop and reinforce problem-solving strategies in mathematics. Each poster focuses on a different strategy, such as: The posters include helpful ...

The way we memorize information—a mathematical problem statement, for example—reveals the way we process it. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris ...

While this three-step process is the ideal process of applied math, reality is more complicated. Once I reach the second step where I want the solution of the math problem, very often, if not most of ...

Find out how to break down and understand maths problems. What is algebra? Explore how to look at missing number problems and see how they are solved.

Nine in ten educators believe that using a problem-solving approach to teaching math and science can be motivating for students, according to an EdWeek Research Center survey. But that doesn’t mean it ...

A Sejong University professor has collaborated with a researcher at Finland’s Aalto University to examine how university ...