California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed that number by adopting 64 during its meeting on Thursday. The approved ...

At least seven states have recently passed legislation targeting math instruction—laws that require schools to identify and support struggling students and mandate that teachers receive additional ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Last fall, the Stanford Mathematics Department introduced a new course titled MATH 18: “Foundations for Calculus.” The addition was a major step in the department’s ongoing efforts to make its ...

Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college opportunities and even on their entire careers. The pressure to reach Calculus by a ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...

U.S. students’ math scores lag behind also dreary reading ones and have struggled even before the pandemic, but changes to the math curriculum to combat the problem have been slow moving. Over the ...

All too often we hear the phrase that only certain students are “good at math.” This is a very common misconception and threatens the success of all students, especially those from marginalized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clarissa Garcia works on a problem during a geometry class at Compton Early College High School last fall. (Gary Coronado / Los ...

Teachers in the University of Hawaii’s Ethnomathematics Graduate Program participate in a lesson at the Ka Papa Loʻi O Kānewai cultural heritage center on Hawaiian anthropic measurements using their ...

Long-term setbacks from the pandemic-era upheaval in learning continue to show up in gauges of students’ academic progress ...