American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...
A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...
The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...
When it comes to how American students are recovering from the pandemic, it's a tale of two subjects. States across the country have made some progress in math over the past two years, while in ...
I reported recently on CD that high school boys outperformed girls on the 2015 SAT math test with an average score of 527 points (55 th percentile) compared to the average score of 496 for high school ...
Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...
Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...
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At CU Boulder, students have several math courses to choose from, based on their intended major. While some courses do not require a prerequisite or prior math experience, others will require a math ...