UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below ...

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...

A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need increasing from ...

Nearly 1,000 UCSD freshmen test into elementary school math despite stellar high school grades—a crisis 30 times worse than ...

California’s public universities were once excellent at milling out mostly competent graduates (along with the requisite duds ...

On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, ...

Confidence in your ability to learn is the key to success in math class! Some students who experience difficulty or struggle learning in math class give up because they think that they are not capable ...

We’re seeing some new developments in AI models that are shedding light on one of the technology’s most prominent gaps – its relative inability to do math well. Some experts note that AI is ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...