Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

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As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Entrepreneur and technologist in AI and AI Literacy. Over the past few months, two notable developments occurred in AI that you ...

Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together into perfect rectangles. As she moves the Fibonacci sequence puzzle around, ...