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Taken very literally, not all students are created equal -- especially in their math learning skills, say researchers who have found that not fully understanding the "equal sign" in a math problem ...

When the decision was made to move algebra instruction down a grade, eighth-grade math teacher Laurie Mancuso spent the summer of 2007 educating herself. The Bunker Middle School teacher wanted to ...

A growing number of mathematicians are skeptical that the equal sign, traditionally used to show exact relationships between sets of objects, holds up to new mathematical models, WIRED reports. To ...

(CNN) -- Several studies have already debunked the myth that boys are innately better at math than girls, but those are largely based on analysis of test scores. Now, researchers also have brain ...

Steve Mirsky: Welcome to Scientific American's Science Talk, hosted on November 15, 2015. I'm Steve Mirsky. On this episode: Arthur Benjamin: I think a lot of the fun stuff has been taken out of the ...