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.

Up to 30 percent of people report moderate to high levels of math anxiety, a condition researchers have observed in children as young as 6.

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.

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