At one of California’s top universities, many freshmen are unable to do middle-school math.

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...

California’s public universities were once excellent at milling out mostly competent graduates (along with the requisite duds and savants). The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has thrown ...

Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children’s math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago. Even children who used the app with their ...

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The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...

How do U.S. students compare with their peers around the world? Recently released data from international math and science assessments indicate that U.S. students continue to rank around the middle of ...

BENGALURU, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. students’ fear of math is accelerating, according to a recent survey gauging student confidence in their math abilities, proficiency and correlation between ...

The latest results of an international exam given to teenagers ranked the USA ninth in reading and 31st in math literacy out of 79 countries and economies. America has a smaller-than-average share of ...