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 ...

A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — 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, ...

Students hear a lot of advice about the importance of what they do in high school, but they aren’t all hearing the same guidance. At least, that’s according to a new report. Students who don’t know ...

Students at the Henry Ford Trade School in Dearborn, Michigan being taught shop trigonometry in the 1940's. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images) David Bressoud, a mathematics professor at Macalester College ...

When Senator Bill Cassidy recently questioned whether K–12 systems are adequately preparing students for college-level math, he touched a nerve in the national conversation. We see the symptoms ...

SAGINAW, MI – On a Thursday afternoon at Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, Xavier Velasco diligently solves math problems, pausing to double-check his work when Ms. Kacie Leneway writes the final ...