Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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, ...

Remember when your sixth-grade math teacher told you to pay more attention in class because you’d need to know this information in adulthood? Here I am, [redacted] years later, and I have no idea what ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet has left people scratching their heads as it requires some clever thinking. The brainteaser, that was shared on X this week by user ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.