Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

A growing number of teachers are speaking out about a troubling trend they say they’re seeing in classrooms: students ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

One morning during school drop-off, a parent waved me over. Her seventh-grade son had always done well in math, so she was puzzled—and more than a little frustrated—that he was struggling with ...

MANILA, Philippines — Students in the Philippines have made slight gains in mathematics but have shown no real progress in reading over the past five years, according to a major regional assessment ...

American college students can’t solve basic math problems or write grammatical sentences, forcing some students to enroll in college classes that teach elementary-school concepts, according to a study ...

Each year, the Illinois State Board of Education releases an annual report card with data showing how students are doing in the basic subjects of reading, writing and math. And each year when those ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

There’s been a significant shift in the math preparedness of incoming college students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). According to a new report from the school’s ...

I learned basic arithmetic skills in third grade. I wasn’t exceptional; everyone in my public school third-grade class learned them. Of course, we all can now use computers to have calculations done ...

Mental math skills are essential in today’s fast-paced world. They allow us to make quick calculations, estimate costs, and figure out tips without relying on a calculator or smartphone. Improving ...

What Boomers learned in childhood, Gen Z treats like a lost art. A twenty-something stares at a paper map like it's written in Sanskrit. Their boomer parent navigates three states from memory, ...