For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

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Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

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 ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

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 ...

Dr. Marlene Tromp, President, Boise State University: Mark Becker, the president of the APLU, was in town to recognize Boise State for having the greatest student success program in the country this ...

Use Math Progress to personalize math instruction, engage students, and identify learning gaps. Explore the educator’s guide to Math Progress. Many students face challenges in building confidence with ...

Here we make explicit the connection between subscript notation in mathematics and indices in Python. In mathematics: Say we have a collection of objects X. We can refer to individual elements of the ...