Precious Mbajiorgu, a remarkable 28-year-old undergraduate studying guidance and counselling at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria's Anambra State, shared her inspiring journey of losing her ...

Many students struggle with mathematics at some stage in their educational journey, and similarly it is the same with their parents—they were students too right? And not everyone was good at math.

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

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Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

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