When Kenya released its senior school placement results in December 2025, the reaction was swift and visceral. Parents crowded school offices. WhatsApp groups are filled with screenshots of placement ...

One third-grade teacher charges her students rent for their desks and chairs to teach them about money management in the real ...

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Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Roughly 41% of Pittsburgh Public Schools' third-graders scored ‘proficient’ or ‘advanced’ on last year’s state exams. That’s ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Business leaders can’t outsource mathematical thinking to AI without sacrificing judgment, because real-world business ...

An elementary math problem has divided the internet after an easy-looking equation turned out to be anything but simple. Many X users were stumped by the problem 16 ÷ 4 X 4 - 4, posted by ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...