It turns out that it does not always pay to be good at math, at least not as a Texas middle school student. Texas lawmakers tried to reduce testing this school year, but a conflict between state and ...

Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...