Testing for younger kids is less common, so the NWEA report offers insights into the depth of the academic disruption. It’s based on assessments given to students in the 2024-25 school year.

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

By students, for students! This spring, the first-ever West Seattle Math Competition will challenge middle-schoolers to test their skills. An organizer's parent asked us to share this announcement - ...

Connecticut lawmakers are weighing a statewide, bell-to-bell ban on student cellphones, and schools are split on whether it helps.

Your financial advisor has run the numbers, stress-tested the portfolio, and given you a green light. You have $3 million ...

Now state Sen., D-La Mesa, hopes to reform math education. She is the primary author of Senate Bill 1067, which would require districts to screen students in early grades to evaluate their math skills ...

For more than a century, economists have tried to reduce economics to a series of mathematical equations and statistical ...

When students create a visual resource to scaffold problem-solving, they can approach independent work with more confidence and focused attention.

Recent studies show that the less likely someone is to use procedural solutions, the better they tend to be at more abstract problem-solving—and gender is a significant predictor. In a new study, ...

At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to drip out. Now, physicists at Brown University have ...

When teenagers turn to AI for emotional guidance or moral conversation, something important is being displaced ...