Includes updates and/or revisions. New research shows a lack of language skills can hamstring a student’s ability to understand basic concepts in mathematics. A series of studies led by Susan ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for snacks, ...

Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program standardized test results from spring 2024 reflected little overall improvement in English language arts and math, according to data released Tuesday by the ...

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change. The world has learned two things in ...

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