The study concludes, “Based on high school GPA or high school math preparation, no group was highly unlikely to succeed in STEM Calculus 1 when directly enrolled and given two years.” Without the ...

In math, Alabama went from back of the class to being singled out for kudos. Is there a lesson for other states looking to ...

Math preparation has been in the spotlight, thanks to declines in performance that predate the pandemic, controversies over California’s influential new math framework, ...

That they currently are calls for a thorough overhaul not just of math preparation in early grades, but also of how students are counseled into middle and high school math courses. In California, that ...

Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. Only one in eight programs give elementary school teachers enough time to ...

Updated at 11:00 a.m. ET on October 5, 2023. When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative ...

Students also come into school with differing levels of math preparation. Some have parents or guardians who have introduced them to foundational concepts and skills. Some have had no exposure. The ...

U.S. students’ math scores lag behind also dreary reading ones and have struggled even before the ... Third grade students practice grammar at the Green Mountain School on February 18, ...

Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to ...

The MATH 18 class and other recent initiatives by the ... to make its curriculum more accessible following feedback from students that existing resources were not sufficient math preparation for ...