Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

CMS leaders have made a concerted effort in recent years to improve high school math performance, but progress has been slow.

As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced assessments administered last spring, only a third of them will see that their children ...

A number of courses across the university use either the Miami Math Placement exam or an ACT or SAT mathematics test subscore as a prerequisite. Since ACT and SAT scores are optional, all incoming ...

Many college students struggle with math anxiety or test taking, which can make entry-level math courses even more challenging. Administrators at Moorpark College in California were interested in ...

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening ...

The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...

They say standardized math test scores are an objective measure of students’ preparedness for college STEM courses.