What the Data Says About Rhode Island’s 7-year Takeover of Providence Schools

By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are ...

A Harvard mathematician and an AI model may have cracked an 87-year-old math problem

AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.
New Scientist

Effort to solve biggest controversy in mathematics has made no progress

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.
New Scientist

AI’s solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Sweller, J., & Cooper, G. (1985). The use of worked examples as a substitute for problem solving in learning algebra. Cognition and Instruction, 2, 59-89. doi:10.1207 ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an instruction designed by the Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) principles on 7th grade students’ achievement in Algebra topics and ...