When confronted with indeterminate problems, young children tend to select only 1 of the possible alternatives. The cause of this inappropriate closure was explored here in 2 studies in which children ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Vol. 102, No. 4, Logic and Probability: Reasoning in Uncertain Environments (August 2014), pp. 867-890 (24 pages) Systems of ...

A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint ...

A new study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. A new LMU study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. How ...

Math Solutions has launched the Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI), a free Web-based math assessment tool designed to help teachers evaluate "students' numerical reasoning and understanding of math ...

September 18, 2025 - Meet Allison Saiki, who teaches students how to manage money, pay rent and open retirement accounts, with a class currency she calls "Saiki Cents." While policymakers, researchers ...

A sigh of relief is a common reaction when parents find a program to help their children succeed in math. That response is something Anna Toneva experiences often when she gives tours of the Houston ...

ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2 In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much ...

At one point during this year’s SXSWedu—a slick Austin conference heavy on marketing for education technology—an audience member stood and asked a panel of Texas lawmakers the question most in the ...