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

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

From factory workers to Wall Street bankers, a reasonable proficiency in math is a crucial requirement for most well-paying jobs in a modern economy. Yet, over the past 30 years, mathematics ...

Q:MY DAUGHTER is being drowned in new terms in math in fourth grade, and having a difficult time remembering them. Is there any easy way for children to learn math terms? — Want to Help A: Believe it ...

Dear Teacher: My daughter is being drowned in new terms in math in fourth grade and having a difficult time remembering them. Is there any easy way for children to learn math terms? — Want to Help ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

The purpose of the Math Placement Assessment (MPA) is to make sure that students begin their mathematical studies at UD in a course for which they are prepared and in which they can succeed. In that ...

We can no longer accept that it’s okay to say, ‘Oh, I’m just not good at math, and so it’s okay if I don’t understand this.’” ...