In the past 20 years, parents have taken to heart public-awareness campaigns urging them to read to their children every night. But math initiatives have not gained as much traction—even as emerging ...

How’s this for a prickly real-world math problem: In the United States, only about one-third of eighth graders are proficient in mathematics. Just half of high school graduates taking the ACT are ...

Students in high-performing countries for mathematics are less reliant on memorization strategies than their peers in lower-performing countries, according to a new analysis of international ...

Parents who are anxious about math can still help their children learn the subject when given the right tools, according to research from current and former University of Chicago scholars. Following ...

Travis Meier’s opinion piece, published in The Gazette on Feb. 12, “The trouble with school is too much math,” demands a response. His reference to the 1983 Reagan administration report, “A Nation at ...

Latino and African-American students were less likely to pass algebra 1 and less likely to attend high schools that offer advanced math or science classes than their white and Asian peers, according ...

Not only are core math concepts missing by design, but the rigorous statistics and computer science skills needed for more advanced coursework are also lacking. A group of middle school girls is ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

My kids have a strange aversion to numbers. They seem to like the idea of quantifying things around them, but when the numbers hit three or four digits we have something of a family mental block.