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MCAS has been a failure, and MassCore will be, too, because the state still does not provide the necessary resources to property-poor school districts.

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Math is a problem — one that a relentless onslaught of testing has not solved. Some assume kids are the ones failing, but it’s time to acknowledge that it’s our tests and the curriculum they determine ...

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Mathematicians from across East Texas gathered at SFA on Tuesday to test their mental prowess against specially devised problems on bisection algorithms by Dr. Jeremy Becnel, associate professor math ...

Two University of Iowa faculty members have won funding from the National Institutes of Health to study why some prematurely born children struggle with math and how early support could improve their ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...