A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

WeBWorK, an open-source online homework system, supports math learning by delivering individualized problem sets with instant feedback. Studies show measurable gains in student performance when the ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...