Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

Four in 10 U.S. adults wish they learned more math skills in middle or high school, according to a new Gallup poll. An overwhelming majority, 95%, said the subject is very or somewhat important for ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

As California students’ math and English test scores continue to trail pre-pandemic scores and students struggle to recover from COVID-19 learning loss, one Bay Area innovator has turned to artificial ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

The Illinois State Board of Education is working on a plan to improve math skills among K-12 students. Capitol News Illinois ...

Texas’ top education official offered a grim assessment of students’ math skills, emphasizing that COVID disruptions linger — even for the children who weren’t in public school when campuses shut down ...

Most Alabama students made gains in most subjects on 2024 spring standardized tests, but officials are concerned about second and third grade math results, officials said Tuesday. “We had some weird ...