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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...