We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent ...

The University of California San Diego has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do ...

From writing essays to coding, there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...

House Republicans face a basic math problem: With just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big. That means that if they try to pass legislation along party lines, they can afford basically no ...

Foundational learning is in freefall across the globe. From Sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, millions of children are leaving classrooms without the ability to read a simple sentence or solve a ...

You might be better at solving grade-school math problems than AI is. An Apple study found that artificial intelligence models get confused by irrelevant information in math problems. For example, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. This story was ...

It’s been a full year now since Covid-19 shut down schools across America. Whether your kids are back to in-person classes, remote learning, or doing some hybrid of both – there’s still a ton of ...