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A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

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A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need increasing from ...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin ...

You might find the following question on a first-grade math test: “7+2=[blank]+6.” But what you wouldn’t expect is for 25 ...

If you’ve ever fantasized about how much easier life would be if you could go back to elementary school, this math problem may give you second thoughts. The question first appeared on a web forum, ...

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