The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor skills. It seems it can also help neurons with difficult cognitive tasks.

Forget the Super Bowl, this is the Math Bowl. D.C.’s first ever “Middle School Math Championship.” D.C. school kids got up early on Saturday, their day off, to go to school voluntarily. What a ...

One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

In this math tutorial, we look at the traditional methods of maths teaching and problem solving. We discuss how education often structures learning by showing problems, working through them, and then ...

This is the first in a two-part series. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of the most contentious in ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

Rule-applying neurons work better under the influence of the happy hormone, researchers have found. The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only ...