A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

When elected officials dismiss data collection and statistics that have met the test of time yet tell a story that they ...

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Yet the education establishment would rather dumb down the curriculum so everyone passes. Mr. Moore is an economics ...

The apparent solution among the education establishment is not to challenge kids to stretch their minds and hit the books but ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

Some people think 2+2=5... and they might be right. A statistician explains how abstract math can have real-world limitations ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. DPI released draft K-12 math standards proposed to replace required Math 3. Students would keep Math 1 and Math 2, then choose two ...