When it comes to factors that affect a student’s well-being in adulthood, better math skills might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But as it turns out, increasing math scores helps deliver ...

Mathematics is a demanding intellectual pursuit, but one that can be interesting, exciting and challenging. People like its clarity and the satisfaction of knowing when you have the right answer to a ...

The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

AI-simulated students consistently outperform real students—and make different kinds of mistakes—in math and reading ...

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Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

America just failed another test. After a decades-long decline in reading and math scores, a recent report says students in ...