Consider the following scenario that frequently occurs in math classes throughout higher education. On the first day of class, a math professor announces to students, “If you don’t know this, this and ...

Teaching math isn’t just about working through problems. Often, it’s about helping students work through baggage, too. After years of historic declines in math performance nationwide and sharp ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a ...

A nontraditional math instruction strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow ...

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OPB has been following a group of students in the Class of 2025, after the state of Oregon set a goal that every student starting with that class, should successfully complete high school. The group ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- "No human teacher could do it on their own" – that is how a Chicago Public Schools principal describes a software program revolutionizing math class. CBS 2's Lauren Victory took us to ...

For years, math was something you either get or you don't. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to several Green Bay ...

The latest results of an international exam given to teenagers ranked the USA ninth in reading and 31st in math literacy out of 79 countries and economies. America has a smaller-than-average share of ...