Math anxiety holds students back from reaching their potential. Experts share insights on the problem and strategies to combat it.

The cycle of pushing beyond a difficult level or boss is probably familiar to most everyone: You fail a lot, over and over.

New research from the University of Waikato nails down how much light travels from the outside world to babies in the womb, ...

Young children can learn about math concepts through activities rooted in exploring the outdoors.

There has been a growing recognition that psychology, as a discipline, must engage more deeply with local contexts.

Physicists have found a simple and effective way to skip over an energy level in a three-state system, potentially leading to ...

A study by MIT economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

Specifically, the AI was able to make progress on a complex problem called the Andrews–Curtis conjecture, which has stumped ...

Participants at this year’s Joint Mathematics Meetings ... Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level A.I.” Dr. LeCun got a bit into the technical weeds, but there were digestible tidbits.

And when it’s better to hold back. You’ve completed a few half marathons, and your sights are set on a new goal: breaking two ...

Simply adding more maths at high school level risks plunging the discipline further into abstraction. There also needs to be more connection between students and those using economics in their ...