We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

Is it OK if your child is taught the probability of a coin flip landing on heads? What about who crossed the Delaware River during the American Revolution? Or how to order breakfast in Spanish? Before ...

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk receives funding from the IES and NSF. When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

In California, more students fall behind in math every year they stay in school and the math achievement gap has grown faster ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) demonstrating remarkable capabilities in language generation, translation, and reasoning. Yet, LLMs often stumble ...