In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify ...

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

Nationwide, U.S. math scores have plunged to historic lows, and experts warn California students are not immune. The 2024 ...

I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had never learned the basic math facts for addition, subtraction, and, ...

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

After Mr Jason Wang’s daughter struggled with maths, she was diagnosed with dyscalculia, a learning difficulty affecting number understanding, similar to dyslexia. Dyscalculia, affecting 3 to 7 per ...

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

This is the dawning of the age of school choice. The school bells will start ringing in the days and weeks ahead, but a record number of kids — especially children from low-income families — will be ...

Imagine knowing that the stock market will likely crash in three years, that extreme weather will destroy your home in eight or that you will have a debilitating disease in 15—but that you can take ...

Imagine being asked to perform at a concert without ever taking piano lessons. Or read a novel without knowing the alphabet. Or solve a calculus problem without first learning basic math. Now, imagine ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...