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 ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is arguably the leading mathematical problem-solving competition. Every year, high school students from around the world attempt six problems over the ...

Problem-solving is a key transferable skill, developing the use of strategic planning, logic, curiosity, an exploratory mindset and creativity across many disciplines. Problem-solving tasks can take ...

IQ tests present the readers with problems in the form of picture puzzles or math problems, and the reader needs to find the solution within a time limit. These simple puzzle games make the brain ...

PEMDAS has plagued many in elementary school math classes, but how many Americans remember how to use the acronym to solve problems? A simple sixth-grade math equation went viral on X for stumping ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Google's second generation of its AI mathematics system combines a language model with a symbolic engine to solve complex geometry problems better than International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold ...

Finnish adults score the highest in literacy, math, and problem-solving skills, while Portugal, Poland, Italy and Lithuania fall below the OECD average in all three competences. A new OECD study shows ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...