Your Dec. 1 article, “Questions Raised on Graduation Test,” noted that many school officials believe that the current proposed exam is too long and difficult. I support the idea that a high school ...
Adults in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland and multiple other countries scored significantly higher than the United States in all three areas on the test. Beyond basic reading and math, respondents ...
“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: Startup Battlefield Finals, PhotoMath appear on stage at the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt Europe/London, at The Old Billingsgate on October 21, 2014 in London, England. (Photo ...
Over the next five years, as many as 1,000 college students will be asked to grapple with the original writings of mathematicians like Euclid and Archimedes in a project that many experts say has good ...
You might find the following question on a first-grade math test: "Fill in the box: 7+2 = [blank] + 6." What you wouldn't expect is for 25 percent of incoming freshmen at a highly ranked university to ...
Faye Alston reached into her mailbox at Kingswood Apartments in Chapel Hill and pulled out an envelope. It contained the last piece of what she’d been working toward for seven years — her GED math ...
The College Board released its 2016 SAT college-entrance test results today, see report here from the Washington Post “SAT scores fall modestly in a year of transition for college admission test.” As ...
Adults are often intimidated by math, and they can easily pass that attitude on to their children. To counter this, some schools are holding events to bust misconceptions and get adults on board with ...