High school graduation requirements for Kansas students soon may be changing, and the Kansas Board of Regents this week weighed in with a couple of suggestions: More math and more paperwork. But those ...

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Not only are core math concepts missing by design, but the rigorous statistics and computer science skills needed for more advanced coursework are also lacking. A group of middle school girls is ...

Travis Meier’s opinion piece, published in The Gazette on Feb. 12, “The trouble with school is too much math,” demands a response. His reference to the 1983 Reagan administration report, “A Nation at ...

In 1999, Po-Shen Loh took home the silver medal as a member of the US International Math Olympiad. Two decades later, much of his life still revolves around math. The team hasn’t been forgotten — if ...

In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes replacing algebra II and calculus in the high school and college curriculum with a practical course ...

A three-year, multimillion-dollar experiment to improve 20 struggling HISD schools yielded big gains in math and limited progress in reading, according to partial results of a study released Wednesday ...