Blend the 100-hour rule with targeted volunteer-led tutoring. By ring-fencing funds for disadvantaged groups to co-commission ...
If many students are struggling with operations like dividing decimals, this schoolwide approach to scheduling can help.
Connecting The Dots works to improve how science and mathematics are taught in schools. It emphasises experiential learning, ...
Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...
For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...
UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...
The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...
At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...
The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...
Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...