“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

American students remain stumped by math. The 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress test — known as NAEP — were published last month, showing that performance for fourth- and ...

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We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Christopher Rakes receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Several state and national reform efforts have tried to improve things. The most recent Common Core standards had a great deal ...

On August 6, 2010, a computer scientist named Vinay Deolalikar published a paper with a name as concise as it was audacious: “P ≠ NP.” If Deolalikar was right, he had cut one of mathematics’ most ...

PEAPACK-GLADSTONE — There was little rest and relaxation during Peggy Campbell-Rush's two-week sojourn in Singapore and Indonesia. No, this was a different type of R&R, as Campbell-Rush, an educator ...

NEW DELHI: Did you ever learn addition and subtraction while using a shoe box, disposable cups or small pebbles in schools and division by using straws and digit strips? If not then visit Delhi ...