WRAL

DPI outlines changes to proposed math overhaul, wants new classes to be available to all

State education leaders are revising their draft standards that would make fundamental changes to how students -- especially high school students -- learn and engage with math. But some State Board of ...
Talking Points Memo

Conservative Education Activists Have a New Target: Math Class

This story was first published by Hechinger Report. It also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota ...
Christianity Today

The Many Factors of America’s Math Problem

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude. I can tell you the story of how math instruction is failing ...
The Clarion-Ledger

First reading, now math. MS senator wants to repeat 'Mississippi miracle'

Mississippi senators have passed the "Mississippi Math Act" to reform elementary school math education. The bill proposes placing math coaches in schools and implementing early screening for students.
The Lantern

Two stages of life, one classroom: How a grandfather and grandson deepened their relationship during a joint math class

Though most grandparents might joke or reminisce about the time they spent in college classes, this duo are making their memories side by side. Last semester, Randy Marker and his grandson, Oliver ...
WBOC

Georgetown Middle School implementing augmented reality in math classes

SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. - Teachers at Georgetown Middle School have a new teaching assistant: augmented reality glasses. Georgetown Middle School has been using Carnegie Learning, an online learning ...
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A building trick learned in math class

A simple construction tip rooted in high school math that helps improve accuracy and efficiency on building projects. Sometimes the basics really do matter. Have you used math like this before? Murder ...
Forbes

UC San Diego Finds One In Eight Freshmen Lack High-School Math Skills

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class ...
WRAL

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...