A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Local districts departed from some national trends. But girls’ scores still slid more than boys’, with a few exceptions.

A while ago, I got interested in mathematics, mostly because I had done so poorly at it in school. I’m being coy. I didn’t do poorly; I pretty much failed. I only passed by cheating. Anyway, I bought ...

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

Newly released data from a crucial national test revealed historically low scores in two major subjects for 12th graders ...

Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

A recent article in The Cut that described the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety that the FX/Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble is inducing in a certain milieu of upper-middle-class parents let ...