A U.S. study has shown that women will do better at mathematics when they are aware of only positive stereotypes (like college educated) but do worse when only aware of negative stereotypes (such as ...

You buy 3 bags of apples with 24 apples in each bag. The total cost of the 3 bags is $12.24. You sell the apples for $0.75 each. How much money do you gain per apple? One way of going about solving ...

In the Alberta government’s rush to prepare students for all the unknown challenges of the 21st Century, it’s decided to take out a lot of the teaching of knowledge from the school curriculum. The ...

New Brunswick teachers will take a different approach to math this fall as the first step in province-wide curriculum reforms to literacy, mathematics and science. Education Minister Kelly Lamrock ...

In the 2003 film School of Rock, Jack Black is a slacker rock musician who impersonates a Grade 5 teacher because he’s behind paying the rent. What he knows about teaching can be written on a guitar ...

Here's some bad news from the world of education: Math scores are in decline across Canada. Just as kids in Poland and Portugal and other formerly disadvantaged countries are taking great leaps ...

Lounge! Since we're nerds, and it's thanksgiving, we just finished eating food, put on our wolf shirts and started doing math problems. However, we're stuck on a rule for doing the following problems ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

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