U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Do you know your geometry from your arithmetic and your fractions from your logs? Let’s find out! Think of this as a math class without the quizzes, where every problem has a twist solution, every ...

The Goldilocks solution to our math crisis is where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but also not so complex and irrelevant that there's none.

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A Wisconsin deputy sheriff fielded an unusual call from a child last week. A Wisconsin sheriff's office is used to responding to emergency requests, but one of the deputy sheriffs for the Shawano ...

If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT as a calculator, you’ve almost certainly noticed its dyscalculia: The chatbot is bad at math. And it’s not unique among AI in this regard. But tokenization isn’t ...

I’ve been out of school a long time (I mean a long time), yet I think I’m still pretty good at basic math. I’m always able to figure out whether a “bargain buy” at the supermarket is actually a ...

The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ longstanding poor performance in the subject, a new study finds. The Center on ...