This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now–but it hasn’t, as ...

Record numbers of U.S. students severely struggle with math, but only a fraction of them receive screening and support targeting potential math disabilities. While math teachers in a nationally ...

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eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #4 focuses on making math instruction more relevant to students. The real question students are asking is, “When am I ever going ...