Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Studies have shown that a significant number of children, particularly in the early grades, struggle with reading, comprehension and mathematics. While it has become imperative to tackle the learning ...

The vast majority of experimental work in behavioral and biomedical science involves group comparison—in the simplest case, an experimental and a control group. Average data are compared and the ...

Carl Arentz bought his 1964 Chevelle two years ago, well used but running. "I'm well aware that it's an old dog that should have been put down," he says, "but I can't bear to see these cars go to the ...

Five different views of the ‘student achievement’ problem—each suggesting a different course of action. Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress scores confirm what most people believe: ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The ...