Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

It’s deliciously reliable, like cherry pie: Divide the circumference of any circle in the universe by its diameter, and you will always get the same number, pi, aka the Greek letter π. In fact, NASA ...

Brain teaser puzzles test the reader's critical thinking and problem-solving skills by challenging them to solve a problem.

WESTON — The "Survivor Math Challenge" on Sept. 26 was an outdoor event in which teams of students competed with one another to solve order-of-operations math problems before completing a variety of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Many students can't stand math class, let alone take a math test. But a group of wiz kids from northwest suburban Lincolnshire are up for the challenge. In fact, they just beat out ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Math Problem Challenge Challenge your problem solving skills in this fast paced math game. Each round consists of three math problems: addition, subtraction ...

A challenging brainteaser tests critical thinking with a math problem of finding the missing value: 3 - 3 x 6 + 2 = ?. Solvers have seven seconds to use the BODMAS rule. Frequent practice of such ...

Math is a problem — one that a relentless onslaught of testing has not solved. Some assume kids are the ones failing, but it’s time to acknowledge that it’s our tests and the curriculum they determine ...