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3+ day, 20+ hour ago (622+ words) No matter your business, you cannot stay still for any length of time or your competitors will scratch and claw all over you." That's how Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank described life in... The Real Scandal Is That Schools Still Teach Algebra No matter your business, you cannot stay still for any length of time or your competitors will scratch and claw all over you." That's how Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank described life in the real, ruthless world of commerce. Please contemplate Blank's dose of reality with all the pearl-clutching from the education-obsessed over a new study showing that one out of eight University of California, San Diego (UCSD) freshmen have math skills "that fall below middle-school level." According to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that covered the recent analysis, California started down the slippery slope of…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago (526+ words) Did you use this article in your work? We'd love to hear how The 74's reporting is helping educators, researchers, and policymakers. Tell us how Lindsey Henderson is the math policy director at ExcelinEd. She previously worked at the Utah State Board of Education as the secondary mathematics specialist. Dave Kung is director of programs at TPSE Math. He previously served as the director of policy at the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin. By Lindsey Henderson & Dave Kung Our country is facing a math crisis, with students' scores on standardized assessments persistently stagnant or declining." When it comes to public policy, there are rarely any easy solutions, but there is one lever states can pull that will ensure more students have access to math courses that will improve their long-term success in life." Research has…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago (683+ words) Martin Middle Makes Math Click with Core and Encore Math If you think math class still involves only worksheets and quiet focus, visiting a Core and Encore math class at Martin Middle will make you think again. Four years ago, the school decided to rethink the way math is taught. Instead of a traditional 45-minute period, students now have a 90-minute math block divided into two separate classes: Core Math and Encore Math. It looks, and sounds, different than a traditional math class setup. And that difference is exactly what's adding up to success. The classes are set up so that students first attend Core Math class, where new concepts are introduced. In that class, the foundation is built for each lesson and skill they will learn. Then, they move into their Encore Math class, where targeted instruction and flexible…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago (1209+ words) When my kids get stuck on their math homework, I am of zero help. Not only because it's been decades since I used the algebra, geometry and calculus pounded into my brain. But also because how schools explain the concepts has changed drastically since I was a teenager. Ohio is again changing its recommendations for math education, in part to address pandemic learning loss. K-12 students' mathematics performance has declined over the past decade, according to the state. And a June report from the National Council on Teacher Quality rated Ohio "weak" on policies to strengthen elementary math instruction. Ohio is not putting the same kind of energy and resources into math that it has in its Science of Reading curriculum, but it has issued a 47-page plan with recommendations. The plan "recognizes that mathematics is an increasingly important factor in…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago (393+ words) A public policy expert isn't surprised that California students' math skills are rapidly deteriorating. A new report from the University of California San Diego's Senate'Administration Working Group on Admissions finds a portion of its first-year students have math skills that are below the level of a middle schooler. In the fall of 2020, 32 students were in remedial math courses. That went up to 390 in 2022, and this year, 921 UC San Diego students are enrolled in remedial math courses. Lance Christensen, vice president of education policy and government affairs for California Policy Center, relays that other UCs are tracking similar trends, but UC San Diego's problem is significantly worse. "For far too long, our K-12 system, especially in California, has ignored the fundamental skills that are necessary for a student to become a competent citizen," Christensen tells AFN. "Numeracy and literacy are the two…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (439+ words) Published 5:00 am Sunday, November 9, 2025 It was draft day at North Warren Elementary " but rather than a ball, dozens of students played with a pencil, cards and statistics to gamify math learning. The Wednesday launch of the initiative, an NBA-developed program called NBA Math Hoops, will likely become at least a quarterlong initiative, school math teacher Marissa Cooke said. She, reading and writing teacher Jessica Roberts, and Jaron Weigel of the Kentucky Card Vault of Smiths Grove are teaming up to make it happen " and kids that morning were enthused. "They're practicing math but don't really know they're practicing math," said Elizabeth "B." Joyce, who heads the school's gifted and talented program and introduced the idea. "We're sneaking in the veggies." "I don't know what careers will be out there when these kids in sixth grade graduate from high school or from…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (390+ words) As Washington, D.C. grows into a national center for technology, health sciences, and cybersecurity, city leaders say the next generation of workers will need one skill above all others: math. Paul Kihn, Washington, D.C.s Deputy Mayor for Education, says the citys long-term education plan, Compact 2043, is designed to make that connection clear by ensuring that every student graduates with the skills to thrive in both college and high-growth careers. "Compact 2043 is our work to ensure that every single child and every student in Washington, D.C. is on a pathway to both higher education and a really good job," Kihn said. He hopes to "narrow both the economic and the racial wealth gaps in D.C'focusing relentlessly on the high growth sectors that we expect to see in Washington." Those sectors, from health care and information technology to data security, rely on strong quantitative…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (484+ words) Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand sees mistakes as a part of learning. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students'with a classic head-scratcher on the first day of class: Sum up the digits from 1 to 100, without counting. But first, he tells them about 19th century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who famously came up with the quickest solution while still in elementary school. "Your challenge is to figure out how he did it," Rand tells his students. Most can't, but that's the point, Rand said: "The lesson is that problem solvers don't always get the solution, but they don't give up either." Rand, 50, who grew up in Rocky Point, has a bachelor's degree in math education from LIU Post in Brookville'and masters' degrees from Stony Brook University and Queens…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (512+ words) Mayor Michelle Wu took a bold step lasts week, leaning into her commitment to drive improvement in Boston Public Schools (BPS) on a very public stage. As part of her inaugural State of the Schools address, the mayor announced the launch of Wicked Math, a major expansion of advanced math opportunities for BPS students. This is the type of announcement that could get lost amid urgent conversations about budgets, staffing, facilities, or transportation. But it shouldn't." Collective attention to and investment in math education are urgent and necessary. Math scores in Boston, which had long been below the state average, took a significant hit during the pandemic. Mayor Wu's action places this timely equity issue at the forefront of improving our schools and has the potential to be game-changing. For years, access to advanced math has quietly reflected a resource…...

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