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Kids and parents dislike math homework, so teachers are scrapping it. Will students be better off?
A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...
A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...
This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...
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Over 60% of California kids can't do math at their grade level. Here's how we change that
OPINION: Every child deserves the chance to build confidence with numbers before they start believing they're "not a math ...
Black marker in hand, Nick Baar returned to the whiteboard. The newly minted math tutor wrote an equation for the eighth-graders in front of him: 25 x 199 The rules were simple: No calculators or ...
A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...
Parents’ confidence in their child’s math progression varies based on household socioeconomic level, according to a new poll released by the education policy nonprofit EdTrust and the MassInc Polling ...
New NY math guidelines tell teachers to stop testing kids on problem-solving speed to curb ‘anxiety’
The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...
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