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Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but more than a third report having ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or performing calculations. It is a common form of academic anxiety: according to an OECD report, around 40% of students ...

HURRICANE, Washington County — Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

The disruptions to children’s schooling over the past two years have caused millions of American parents to come to an unexpected revelation: They are not as good at math as they had hoped. Nothing ...

This press release originally appeared online. As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math ...

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Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...