Texas’ top education official offered a grim assessment of students’ math skills, emphasizing that COVID disruptions linger — even for the children who weren’t in public school when campuses shut down ...

The back to school season means more opportunities for students to participate in engaging and challenging math competitions. Math competitions are beneficial for students of all ages and levels.

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

I enjoyed reading your recent discussion with Alex Baron, “How Much Autonomy Should Teachers Have Over Instructional Materials? ” In particular, I was struck by your skepticism about whether ...

Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns ...

(NEXSTAR) — School is back in session, bringing in the first wave of students born during the pandemic, dubbed “COVID kindergartners,” into classrooms nationwide. The students older than them, however ...

In 2023-24 at Samish Elementary, only 21% of students were consistently showing grade-level knowledge. The next year, that number jumped to 44%. School officials credit targeted efforts by teachers ...

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 ...

A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to be a problem for many young Americans. In 2022, the Programme for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance continued last year, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...