In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Monkeys can perform mental addition in a manner remarkably similar to college students, a new study shows. The researchers stressed that monkeys will not pass college math tests anytime soon.

Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

一位听众想知道搭配 “in addition to”、“as well as” 和单词 “furthermore” 以及 “moreover” 之间的区别。这四个词语都有 “除…之外” 的意思，用在句子中都可以起到补充和添加信息的作用。本期节目将通过讲解它们在句中充当的成分，以及对比它们的正式程度 ...