The Washoe County School District is asking for the public’s input as it reviews new high school math instructional materials that could be used in classrooms a ...

A sixth grade math teacher explains how TikTok helped her engage students, support parents, and build a massive following beyond the classroom.

Ten years after the "Mississippi Miracle," some senators say it's time for the legislature to focus on progress in elementary ...

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Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...

Label the rectangles correctly with the letters A to I. Show puzzle solution Only the four blue-shaded rectangles below intersect three other rectangles, and therefore they must be F, G, H and I. H ...

Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an admissions requirement five years ago? Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...