Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Sophie Boudreau remembers the moment school first set her apart. A first grader was sent to a fifth-grade room and told to ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Heinemann today announced that California Math Expressions has officially ...

On a more microscale (literally), microlearning has been shown to help “protect mental health and support resilience” by giving learners repeated, low-stress opportunities for building skill and ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day ...

The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...

Setting aside time in the school day to teach students social-emotional skills, such as emotional regulation and perspective-taking, can substantially boost students’ grade-point averages and ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

Washington has an urgent math problem. Nearly one in three students cannot demonstrate basic grade-level skills, and among low-income students it’s almost one in two. In a state that prides itself on ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial...we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good." —Abraham Lincoln Throughout history, societies have ...