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

Researchers in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) want young children to go cuckoo for mathematics. Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

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 ...