More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

Five states — Georgia, California, Tennessee, Utah and Oregon — have better aligned high school and college math courses in ...

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

Principal Brent Kline stands among students at Palo Alto High School’s first day of school for the 2025-26 school year on Aug. 14, 2025. Photo by Lisa Moreno Palo Alto and Gunn High School education ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national ...

Allysia Finley is right to highlight the shrinking ranks of qualified teachers (“The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math,” Life Science, Dec. 1). My husband—who holds engineering degrees ...

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 ...

A deceptively simple math problem has left the internet stumped, proving it may be far trickier than it appears at first glance. The mathematical brain teaser, posted Friday by X user @BholanathDutta, ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...