The bees chose the correct option between 60 percent and 75 percent of the time. They pointed out that solving even basic math problems required the mental ability to understand abstract rules and ...

Despite their “miniature brains,” honeybees can harness both long-term rules and short-term memory in order to solve math problems.

How often do teachers talk to students about multiple strategies, and how to select them, in math problem-solving? Students in the [United States] are very rarely doing rich contextual problems.

Thirty-eight percent of young adults think math is very important in their work life; fewer believe it’s important in their ...

Bees don't just buzz around and make honey; they also do math problems in their free time that would stump the average 4-year-old.

In fact, a third of educators—35 percent—worry that teaching math or science through real-world problems—rather than focusing on procedures—eats up too many precious instructional minutes.