Can students learn basic algebra concepts in just two hours if those concepts are presented as a fun, interactive game? That’s the idea behind the Story Problem Challenge, an online, interactive game ...

Wuzzit Trouble, from InnerTube games, is new in the app store this week. Innertube Games is a learning-games studio founded by four enthusiasts, including the world famous Dr. Keith Devlin: the NPR ...

LAS CRUCES - Researchers at New Mexico State University are looking at how fourth- and fifth-grade students can better understand early algebra concepts after using educational video games developed ...

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I met Jean-Baptiste Huynh—the Vietnamese Frenchman living in Oslo who persuaded the entire country of Norway to spend a week solving algebra problems—a few months ...

The New York-based education start-up Amplify plans to roll out an unprecedented 30 educational games this October to complement its tablet-based middle-school curriculum. But it is giving consumers a ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

The eighth-grade math class at Intermediate School 30 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, sounded like a video arcade on Monday morning as 30 students zoomed through virtual tunnels and zapped competitors with a ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...