If you correctly recall the elementary trick for order of operations, solving this problem should be a breeze.

Emily Scherer has been teaching fifth-grade English in Newport, Vermont, for nearly a decade. In this remote, poor corner of ...

As COVID-19 took hold across the islands beginning in 2020, Hawaii’s public schools struggled to take stock of the damage ...

Here’s the full “if I had four eggs” riddle: If I had four eggs, a thief gave me three and my rooster laid five more, how many eggs do I have? Here’s your only hint: This challenging riddle requires ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Jake and Alma had yet another argument about money—budgets, who was spending what—but, like the others, it led to nowhere productive. But for other couples, it might not be about money but sex, or ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...

AT the University of the Philippines Diliman’s commencement exercise last July 6, a staggering 241 students graduated summa cum laude. Another 1,143 earned magna cum laude, and 985 were recognized as ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Series: Reading: Part Two of Two (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 241-251 (11 pages) This purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity ...

A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to be a problem for many young Americans. In 2022, the Programme for ...