Many stories also picked up on the fact that achievement gaps are growing, as lower-performing students have fallen further behind. For instance, in eighth grade math, the scores for the top 10% of ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers. “It looks like student achievement just fell off a cliff,” said Dan ...

A 2023 doctoral study from Walden University found that girls placed in single-gender math classrooms, supposedly designed to "support" them, actually scored lower on both the ERB and the PSAT math ...

STEM gaps in achievement between boys and girls that took more than a decade to close were reopened in just four years, according to a new study from K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA.

Girls had closed long-standing gender gaps in math test scores and were doing about as well as boys on standardized tests in the years leading up to the pandemic. But the gender gap in math has come ...

Canadian students' math performance is deteriorating. That's bad for them and the economy. Provinces must address it now ...

EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and finally closed the long-standing ...

Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that multiplication is just repeated addition. And that mastering the times tables will help students simplify ...

Years 7 and 8 students at Kaiapoi North School, equivalent to sixth and seventh grades in the U.S., work out math problems in chalk on their school’s playground. The school is in suburban Christchurch ...