Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Ben Liu is a quantitative problem solver. Liu has modeled aspects of cells and measured the limits of cardio-electrophysiological models as an undergraduate in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences.

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 ...

Teaching novices how to formulate mathematical models for ill-structured problems is a challenging task. Little is known about how novices approach ill-structured problems and how their performance ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2005), pp. 355-367 (13 pages) This article relates to an empirical study based on the use of mathematical symbolism in problem ...