‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...
A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.
Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...
California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed ...
A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need increasing from ...
Other UCs are tracking similar trends, but UC San Diego’s problem is “significantly worse,” the report states.
The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new—and much-debated—math framework on Wednesday, concluding a years-long process that involved three drafts, prompted hundreds of suggested ...
In recent years, states have embraced literacy reform and experienced real gains. It’s time to bring that same urgency and practicality to math with numeracy ...
The school board voted 6-1 in February 2024 to reinstate Algebra 1 and launched pilot programs at seven schools for the ...
Includes updates and/or revisions. Two years into the nation’s largest experimental evaluation of commercial mathematics programs for early elementary school, the Institute of Education Sciences has ...
How a student innovator is transforming math anxiety into curiosity through movement, technology and hands-on learning ...