Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

For the city’s stressed-out third-graders, one math exam plus one reading exam equals – done! Some 80,000 8-year-olds survived their high-stakes math exam yesterday after sweating through the reading ...

Math teachers are hard to find in South Dakota, and some K-12 leaders wonder whether a challenging certification test is creating a bottleneck. Almost half of aspiring teachers in South Dakota who ...

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 ...

Former President Donald Trump claimed to have again “aced” an increasingly difficult cognitive test involving intricate math problems, but experts say the test is easy, and a mock exam contained ...

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 ...

If you are interested in learning about the easiest math problems that look hard, then you have come to the right place. Many people consider mathematics to be tough, and if you are one of them, then ...

Ellen Peters receives funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Brittany Shoots-Reinhard receives funding from the National Science Foundation and National ...