Math fluency requires more than just memorizing facts and procedures, but also knowing how and when to use them.

And without those insights, they are unable to apply their knowledge from one real-world example to another, exactly the opposite of what maths teachers want to achieve! Kaminski isn't calling for an ...

After learning this math concept using the concrete examples or abstract, generic symbols, the students took a multiple-choice quiz demonstrating that they learned the principles involved.

Emerging research into the mind-body partnership shows students who make relevant arm movements while learning can improve their knowledge and retention of math. Researchers at Southern Methodist ...

Mathematics: forget simplicity, the abstract is beautiful — and important Many students question why mathematics is so complicated while grappling with a complex calculus problem ...

Zane Wubbena, a doctoral candidate at Texas State University, is studying how brain development affects students' ability to comprehend the math curriculum for their grade level.

That last possibility is now proving itself to be dramatically true in the case of category theory, perhaps the most abstract area in all of mathematics.

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary ...

They said students who were taught abstract math concepts fared better in experiments than those taught with real-world examples, such as story problems.

New research published in Science suggests that attempts by math teachers to make the subject easier to grasp by providing such practical examples may actually have made it tougher to learn.