May 11—THOMASVILLE- Two students, ages 9-10, achieved Memory Master status in April after memorizing more than 500 facts and completing four separate oral testing events with 100-percent accuracy.

If you’ve ever been the person who remembers everyone’s birthday, obscure facts or entire movie scripts after a single watch, you could be tapping into a cognitive superpower — and it’s more valuable ...

The Memory Club, founded in fall 2023, aims to share techniques to improve memorization and learning on campus. Credit: Abhiram Juvvadi Two Penn students founded Memory Club last semester to help ...

If you want to see pure cognitive magic in action, walk into any Texas band hall the week before a UIL competition. You’ll find teenagers, yes, the same ones who “can’t remember” where they left their ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and without math difficulties. Researchers found that using interventions to ...

America’s long-standing model of preparing medical students for real-world patient care has been highly criticized on various levels. Primarily, critics argue the model forces students to memorize ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

Working memory is our ability to store and manipulate information for a brief time. It is typically measured by dual-tasks, where the individual has to remember an item while simultaneously processing ...

Ask a student to memorize a formula, and AI can do it faster. But ask them to apply it to a real-world problem, and that’s where the future of rigor lies. For decades, rigor in advanced coursework ...