In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber Simpson, associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and ...

Some Anne Arundel County middle schoolers will spend more time in math class next academic year amid a pilot program. The initiative will launch at Arundel, Corkran and Wiley H. Bates middle schools, ...

The number of Florida students taking courses for college credit while still in high school has shot up in recent years. But while the practice makes higher education more affordable and speeds up the ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

When Lernik Asserian thinks about designing a new math course, she doesn’t start with textbooks or syllabi. Instead, she asks: what would I have wanted as a student? That student-centered philosophy ...

Analog Academics: As students increasingly struggle with college algebra requirements, many are sent to “remedial” math classes to catch up. Here, a remedial math student's notebook at Baltimore City ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

The mayor would need $700 million for teachers to reduce class sizes in line with a state mandate. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at what it will take to reduce class ...

Mississippi senators have passed the "Mississippi Math Act" to reform elementary school math education. The bill proposes placing math coaches in schools and implementing early screening for students.

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