The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Early math is fraught with confusing questions: Do kids really need to know all those multiplication tables? Which should come first, math concepts or procedures? Why don’t schools pay as much ...

Grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Balance the Equation – A Grand Challenge for Algebra I will award upwards of $1 million to various educational programs focused on Black students. Bob ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the nation witnesses unprecedented declines in academic achievement, one of the largest education philanthropies has announced ...

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2019 photo, Bill and Melinda Gates pose for a photo in Kirkland, Wash. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 that it is making grants of more ...

Just as the Covid crisis exploded last year, we called on philanthropy to increase giving and do it quickly to mitigate the worst of the social and economic harm unfolding before our eyes. We knew ...

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the only donor listed on a website for a group dedicated to eliminating racism from the nation’s math curriculum, which would be accomplished, in part, by ...

The claim: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said math lessons are 'racist' An April 10 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows musician Tom MacDonald claiming that a philanthropic ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is making grants of more than a $1 billion as part of a sweeping national plan to improve math education over the next four years. Its ...