America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...
Education Week

Do Parents See Math as ‘Less Useful’ Than Reading?

In the past 20 years, parents have taken to heart public-awareness campaigns urging them to read to their children every night. But math initiatives have not gained as much traction—even as emerging ...
Phys.org

Math degrees are becoming less accessible—and this is a problem for business, government and innovation

There's a strange trend in mathematics education in England. Math is the most popular subject at A-level since overtaking English in 2014. It's taken by around 85,000 and 90,000 students a year. But ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN

Kids and parents dislike math homework, so teachers are scrapping it. Will students be better off?

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...