From the NY Times, an article “As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics” about rethinking the teaching of “fuzzy math” in American schools. “The changes are being driven by students’ lagging ...

How ironic that Ms. Lutton should continuously refer to a work called Fuzzy Math. In her world, nearly two-thirds of American families should live off the labor and income from the other third. In a ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Multiple economists laid into President Donald Trump Saturday for his “fuzzy math” cited alongside his many lofty promises or ...

Let me begin with some numbers: in this year's first presidential debate, held on Oct. 3 in Boston, Texas Gov. George W. Bush used the phrase "fuzzy math'' four times to disparage the arguments of ...

A report released today by the National Council on Teacher Quality gave college teacher-training programs a failing grade for their preparation of teachers to teach elementary- and middle-school ...

One of Paul Greenberg's several Rules for Editorial Writers was this: Don't be hesitant to publish a correction. It'll be the best-read thing on the page that day. We hate to brag, but we are wrong ...

THE FINANCIAL EDGE, MARCH 2019 – On Feb. 19, the Alberta government announced that it had entered into transportation (and some logistics) contracts with CN and Canadian Pacific to begin to move ...

A closer look at George W. Bush and Al Gore's presidential debate shows that both candidates used numbers that were misleading. Tuesday night's presidential debate at times sounded like a math bee, ...

During an April 2 floor debate, New Jersey Democrat Rob Andrews criticized Republicans for citing a study that “ the author claims is just being blatantly misrepresented,” and the House energy ...

What constitutes quality mathematics instruction? And, if we don’t have it in schools now, how do we get it? In this Education Week Commentary, Jere Confrey warns that setting standards will not be ...

George W. Bush has been accusing Al Gore of using “fuzzy math,” but Bush fails basic addition when he discusses taxes, apparently adding 16.2% plus 2.9% and coming up with 16.4% (“A Day in the Life of ...