Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Medina’s Claggett students served up slice of real-life problem solving

For decades, many students have sat in math classes wondering when they will ever use the lessons they are learning in real ...
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Kid tries an overnight first-class flight experience

Adam B spends the night in a $21,000 first class airplane seat. Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in prime-time address World's tallest teen sets new basketball record World's 1st ...
Seattle Times

Kids rarely read whole books anymore. Even in English class

In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and ...
Forbes

UC San Diego Finds One In Eight Freshmen Lack High-School Math Skills

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class ...
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‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
Newsweek

Mom’s Take on What Kids Do in Gym Class Sparks Important Debate

A Colorado mom has sparked debate online for sharing her honest take on how physical education was taught in schools. The 37-year-old remembers being forced to run laps, play T-ball and feel ...
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Touhou Cirno’s Perfect Math Class Used to Promote McDonald’s

Like previous parody songs, the lyrics have been changed to reflect the menu item in question. Cirno advertises the three types of cheese that are in the pie (cheddar, gouda, and Camembert). Instead ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...
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Editorial: For too many American kids, math isn’t adding up

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...