A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

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 ...

Math anxiety is one of the few student fears that travels across classrooms, cities, and abilities. It appears in ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

As educators, community members and parents work to help kids catch up from pandemic-related learning loss through accelerated learning and high dosage tutoring, national test scores published Monday ...

Imagine a hypothetical baseball player. Call him Alex. He fails a drug test that is known to be 95 percent accurate. How likely is it that he is really guilty? If you said 95 percent, you’re wrong.

Why do so many students hate math, fear it, or both? If you ask most students what they think their role is in math classrooms, they will tell you it is to get questions right. Students rarely think ...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers have had to rethink pretty much everything they do with students—and that includes how they give math tests. With many students working remotely, ...

As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced assessments administered last spring, only a third of them will see that their children ...

The Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA) tests your mathematical thinking and reasoning skills. Which LSE programmes use the TMUA in their selection process? For these two programmes ...

I reported recently on CD that high school boys outperformed girls on the 2015 SAT math test with an average score of 527 points (55 th percentile) compared to the average score of 496 for high school ...