As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

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Many students complain and question math learning in school because they feel it isn’t necessary for their future lives. However, many students don’t realize that math is used and applied everywhere.

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

The US math crisis has continued to deepen since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Test scores have plummeted more dramatically since 2020, particularly for kids in 8th grade upwards. In fact, ...

Re “California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash” (front page, Nov. 5): De-emphasizing math, including calculus, in favor of teaching social justice is a false dichotomy. What I ...

What caused the Antarctic explorer’s ship to wreck? A new study contends it may not be what experts thought. By The Learning Network Will you have a white Christmas this year? What do you notice about ...