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When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...

Practical science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills are crucial in order to prepare today's students for tomorrow's world. There are many who are working hard to provide our youth with ...

On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, ...

Unlike the Science of Reading initiative that received $164 million in dedicated funding, the math plan must rely on existing ...

It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...

Editor’s note, July 8, 2020; Updated March 18, 2021: The author of this piece, which was originally published on the Conversation, contacted Education Week to acknowledge to us that she failed to ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...

MANKATO — Good Counsel Learning Center’s executive director someday may need lessons in how to slow down. But for now, ...