Mark Harris loads a pumpkin onto a catapult (trebuchet) Saturday at Washington State College of Ohio in Marietta during the second annual Pumpkin Chuckin’ event. Organizers wanted to show off aspects ...

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

(The Center Square) - A new report by University of California, San Diego found freshmen are nowhere near ready for college math and writing classes. The problem isn’t isolated to new students at the ...

A student uses his phone to copy the whiteboard at the end of a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Diego Fonseca looked at the computer ...