A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...

A simple finger trick for the 11 times table is helping secondary school students aged 12 to 16 improve mental arithmetic skills. By separating two-digit numbers, adding the digits, and inserting the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

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Math is everywhere in daily life. Parents and teachers can use simple activities to teach math without a textbook.For example, buying vegetables can teach kids about measurements and fractions. This ...

The US of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill that aims to increase transparency in the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) management of tax return mistakes. What is What is IRS MATH Act? The law ...

It's a scene many families know all too well: the entire household gathered around the table, pencils in hand, staring down at a seemingly impossible math problem. But for one Ohio family, a normal ...

Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster than ever before by eliminating a previously unknown inefficiency, reports Quanta Magazine. This could eventually ...

California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...

A commentary by an education advocate who is the founder of WISE Math B.C. She lives in North Saanich. Math is hard. It’s also necessary, for all levels of society, for all types of daily tasks. It’s ...

Alberta students are three times more likely to be math illiterate than they were 20 years ago. And there’s a double whammy, with far fewer Alberta students now able to do math at the highest level.

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