New York Post

Defense Department calls for major STEM initiative as American math skills pose threat to national security

BOSTON (AP) — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re ...
The Hill

The K-12 system keeps sending us students who can’t do algebra. Here’s how to fix that.

As leaders of science and engineering departments at a public university, we have front row seats to the outcomes of America’s approach to kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) math education. We see ...
al.com

American students’ math skills raise alarms over global competitiveness

BOSTON – Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re ...
WESA

College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic

A student uses his phone to copy the whiteboard at the end of a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Diego Fonseca looked at the computer ...

Should executive functioning be more thoroughly embedded in math curricula?

The survey data in the report shows that while teachers agreed executive functioning skills were important in learning math ...
WOWT.com

Americans have poor math skills. It’s a threat to US standing in the global economy, employers say

BOSTON (AP) — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs, they’re ...