Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
The Boston Globe

Big tech wants a free pass — even if AI toys harm children

Although tech companies often don’t directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal safeguards on AI is making kids emotionally, mentally, and physically ...
New York Post

We’re raising kids who can’t do the math — making them easy to manipulate

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...
WRAL

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Threads of resilience: Filipino traditional patterns in contemporary fashion

Patterns have always been a form of communication in fashion. Filipino traditional patterns, in particular, reflect belief systems, social values, and memory through design. Even today, our ...
Daily Record

Parents and kids baffled by 'impossible' maths exam questions

As thousands of Year 11 pupils throughout the UK grapple with their mock examinations, one phenomenon has left teachers and parents equally baffled: the emergence of the seemingly "impossible" GCSE ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Engineers Say These Ten Holiday Gifts Will ‘Make Kids Think’

From a book to robots, the products all focus on microelectronics. Purdue University Inspire Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering As they pondered which STEM toys kids might want for the ...
The Conversation

A new study shows little kids who count on their fingers do better at maths

Jennifer Way received funding from NSW Department of Education, Strategic Research Fund (2021–2024). ID: G212850. Katherin Cartwright received funding from NSW Department of Education, Strategic ...
Education Week

How to Make Every Student Feel Like a ‘Math Person’

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Bloomberg L.P.

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn’t Adding Up

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...