Simple math equation can be solved using 5th-grade trick, yet many are still stumped — can you figure it out?

The social media user reminded people to apply PEMDAS — something many of us learned in 5th grade and probably forgot. If you ...
Education Week

A Subset of Math Skills Predicts Algebra 1 Success. What Are They?

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...
The Press Democrat

Pi Day math tournament mixes equations and pastries in Santa Rosa

Student mathematicians spent Saturday crunching numbers and solving equations at Maria Carrillo High School’s library as part ...
Forbes

What Math Do You Need For Physics? It Depends

In one of David Lodge's comic novels about academia, the English-professor characters play a game called "Humiliation," where they take turns admitting classic works of literature that they haven't ...
The Hechinger Report

Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...