The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: It’s easier and easier to get an A in math

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Amid the growing ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: How important was your favorite teacher to your success? Researchers have done the math

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Business Wire

Mississippi Students Using Math Nation Achieve Higher MAAP Proficiency and Growth Scores

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Middle and high school students in Mississippi schools that used Math Nation during the 2021-22 school year achieved higher math proficiency and math growth scores than ...
Inside Higher Ed

Minding the Perception Gap in College Math Classrooms and Beyond

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Higher math is everywhere. But should UC require all applicants to learn it?

To the editor: As a physics professor who uses Algebra 2 (and higher math) every day, I felt compelled to respond to the debate over how much math the University of California system should require ...
Quanta Magazine

Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact

Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...