EDUCATION College students are struggling with basic math, many stuck at 9th grade level; professors blame the pandemic Colleges are largely blaming the disruptions of the pandemic, which have ...

The U.S. secretary of education is having issues with basic math. Linda McMahon testified on Trump’s 2026 budget before the Senate on Tuesday. While discussing spending on federal grants programs for ...

George Mason Term Instructor Ermias Kassaye, left, helps a student figure out an equation during a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax.

The math students are taught in kindergarten often progresses no further than basic counting and shapes. In a 2013 study , researcher and University of Colorado Boulder associate professor Mimi Engel ...

Average math scores are about how students did in 1990; average reading scores are similar to 2004. “This is a very serious matter,” said Peggy Carr, head of the National Center for Education ...

Evans, along with another collaborator at Georgetown, Ian Lyons, is now investigating how these basic memory skills relate to math learning at the brain level. They’re using similar tasks as in the ...

New York Post opinion columnist Rikki Schlott criticized test-optional admissions policies, alleging the pandemic-era change is responsible for the math struggles of Harvard freshmen.

FrontierMath, a new benchmark from Epoch AI, challenges advanced AI systems with complex math problems, revealing how far AI still has to go before achieving true human-level reasoning.

This initiative offers greater flexibility to students in shaping their academic path, provided they meet certain conditions.

I n June 1978, the organizers of a large mathematics conference in Marseille, France, announced a last-minute addition to the program. During the lunch hour, the mathematician Roger Apéry would ...