Math isn’t just assignments and deadlines – it can be playful, creative and enjoyable as a puzzle or a game. That’s the spirit of what University of Virginia School of Data Science master’s student ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 ...

One school district in Onondaga County was among the top 30 in New York for proficiency levels on the latest round of statewide assessments in math and English language arts. The Fayetteville-Manlius ...

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For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

When it was released in September, the latest national assessment showed some upsetting, although not surprising, trends. Considered a good window into how K-12 students in the U.S. are faring, the ...

On the Wednesday, October 22, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: The 2025 Nation’s Report Card reveals that US students are still falling behind in reading and math. Martin West, Academic Dean at ...

Washington has an urgent math problem. Nearly one in three students cannot demonstrate basic grade-level skills, and among low-income students it’s almost one in two. In a state that prides itself on ...