A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Mathematics education must move beyond marks and memorisation, focusing instead on reasoning, problem-solving, and creative ...

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Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

The Kapan Math Club (KMC) was founded in June 2020 by an entrepreneur and four International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) ...

Remember Principal Erik Collins, the guy who spent a night on the roof of Coolidge Elementary after daring his students to hit one million math problems? Turns out that rooftop sleepover was just the ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- ...

Four new portraits have gone up at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, showcasing this year’s recipients of the ...

The resignation was one of several in the Bandon School District, where a labor dispute, staff transfers and complaints about ...

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 06: Dr. Vinay Prasad currently directs the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Dr. Vinay Prasad, ...