Growing up in a family of math wizards, it was an everyday situation for me to be asked to solve all kinds of problems as a price to be allowed to watch TV or get chocolates. Truth be told, on most ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

Test after test of U.S. students’ reading and math abilities have shown scores declining since the pandemic. Now, new results show that it’s not just children whose skills have fallen over the past ...