Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...
Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...
(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 ...
For folks in the literacy world, the bitter fight over California’s math framework sounded eerily familiar. On one side, proponents of the framework argued that students need to learn to love math, ...
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 ...
Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...
It’s a common refrain from elementary school to adulthood: “I’m bad at math.” It’s a hard subject for a lot of people, and it has a reputation for being—let’s face it—boring. Math isn’t taught in a ...
All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students take introductory calculus. But only a ...
When the state’s standardized test scores were released in October, there was little reporting on or discussion of students’ performance on the California Science Test. Yet, fewer than 3 in 10 of ...
That’s how experts describe the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “nation’s report card.” Considered a highly accurate window into student ...
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 ...
Margie Howells said that she turned to the science of math after wondering why there weren't as many resources for dyscalculia as there were for dyslexia. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar The Hechinger ...