For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Black and Latino students are much less likely to have early access to Algebra 1 than their white and Asian peers—even when they’re in the same schools, and have similarly high math scores, according ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

Military-affiliated learners are no stranger to the various ways in which college credit can be earned. Most commonly known are the College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP), Defense Activity for ...

The Walter P. Carter (WPC) Institute of Leadership and Service, created by former Maryland State Sen. Jill P. Carter, has launched its first major initiative, the Community Leadership and Empowerment ...

Purdue Testing Services (PTS) administers College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams year-round by appointment during office hours. Most CLEP exams are 90 minutes long, except Spanish with Writing ...

Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...

Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...