The level of skill required to solve many of the math questions posed to 4th and 8th graders on the nation’s benchmark of academic progress is “extraordinarily easy,” asserts an analysis unveiled last ...

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Digital learning has empowered educators and has helped students prepare better for their future. Tools like simple calculators have now become more advanced and feature dozens of functions apart from ...

Some good news for science and math teachers: Most Americans say they liked math and science in school. That’s one of the findings in a new survey by the Pew Research Center, which conducted a ...

For some time now, school leaders have struggled to recruit staff to teach certain subjects. Efforts to tackle the shortage have so far failed to produce the numbers required, but if we want top ...

So how to best describe Americans’ relationship with math? The answer is, well, a lot like multivariable calculus: It’s complicated. A national Gallup study reveals that more than 90% of American ...