Math skills are extremely perishable. The most common mistake students make is not studying for the MPE. In order to place into a course concordant with your actual skill level, it's important to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One little command can cause hands to tremble, mouths to wick dry, sweat to bead on the forehead: "Find X." You know what I'm talking about. It's the dreaded math test. Uh, no ...

A bad relationship with math can start early, and anxiety or a lack of confidence around numbers can compound over time — transforming from a grade school phobia to a career hurdle. But some math ...

Two programs for teaching mathematics in the early grades—Math Expressions and Saxon Math—emerge as winners in early findings released last week from a large-scale federal experiment that pits four ...

With the prevalence of the acronym STEM in education parlance today, interest has grown in not just promoting the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as separate entities, ...

As another school year is getting well under way, educators are faced with starting the process all over again for preparing students for standardized testing. It's not something that can be put off ...

In another "Freakonomics"- style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, education professors have found that public-school students outperform ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. An abysmal ...

A new study found obese children perform worse in math. June 14, 2012— -- Childhood obesity affects math performance in school, along with child's social skills and well being, according to a new ...

A baby's sense of numbers at the age of 6 months predicts how good that child will be at math at the age of 3, new research finds. In the study, in which researchers looked at infants' "primitive ...

Scientists have debunked the idea that women are underrepresented in the technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) industries because of biological differences which affect their math skills.