Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they often find themselves at sea when first confronted with writing proofs.

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 ...

A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...

California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed that number by adopting 64 during its meeting on Thursday. The approved ...

A nontraditional math instruction strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

At least seven states have recently passed legislation targeting math instruction—laws that require schools to identify and support struggling students and mandate that teachers receive additional ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...

Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.

Michigan’s State School Aid Act required school districts to administer benchmark assessments in reading and math to all K-8 ...

One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below high-school levels in math, according to a university report. One in 12 do ...