Jose Medrano and Rebeca Zapata shuddered at what their daughter, Miranda Zapata, brought home one recent day: fifth grade math homework. “Since it’s something I haven’t practiced recently, I feel like ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

This Sunday, we will all dutifully set our clocks back one hour for daylight saving time. But why is our day divided into 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 ...

The Colorado Springs Flea Market occupies a massive expanse on the eastern edge of the city, creating a temporary weekend city dedicated to the proposition that one person’s “I don’t need this anymore ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. Give it a try to see if you can ...

Students in Philadelphia’s public schools have made gains in math, though reading scores have seen a slight decline, ...

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The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Hiranmayi Srinivasan is a former Associate Editor for Investopedia. She covered personal finance topics such as budgeting, saving, investing, and economic news at Investopedia between 2021 and 2025, ...