These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

Students in Jacqueline Echeverria Cab’s third-grade class at Flowery Elementary School are riding high after being named the California state champions in a prestigious math competition. Jacqueline ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Abstract: Recently, researchers in the field of math word problem (MWP) solving have reported performance metrics for various large language models (LLMs) on benchmark datasets, with some models ...

GSM8K-V is a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark that systematically maps each GSM8K math word problem into its visual counterpart to enable a clean, within-item comparison ...

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

“Yoshua recently turned 57. He is three years younger than Yann. How old is Yann?” Solving such a math word problem (MWP) requires understanding the short natural language narrative describing a state ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, but sometimes we come across a few questions that leave us scratching our ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...