One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

Cecilia Lopez Alvarado passed high school math with A’s and B’s. But in college, she effectively had to start over. Here’s ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

William Ferenchick has always been interested in mathematics. The Wilson High School senior had an aptitude for it at a young ...

The country remains in what researchers have termed a stubborn “reading recession.” But there are some bright spots in math, ...

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.

Changes in scores vary widely across the state. Some districts — like Wasatch County — are bucking the downward trend, while ...

The 2026 Education Scorecard ranks South Dakota near the bottom for math and reading recovery from 2022–2025, with students ...

Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...