To tell how many dots we see or to compare quantities, the brain taps into its “approximate number system.” Mazzocco found that students in the bottom 10 percent of math achievement lagged in ...

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.

Students benefit more from being taught the concepts behind math problems rather than the exact procedures to solve the problems. The findings offer teachers new insights on how best to shape math ...

Math and medicine converge in understanding this. Math can help to explain the patterns by which some stem cells change their form, others multiply, and others just sit and do nothing, he says.