One aspect of culture is a commonly held set of beliefs and norms that guides the practices of a group. At a broad/national level, the culture of mathematics teaching can be characterized as both an ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) - Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education announced funding for 55 new Pre-K to 3rd grade classrooms next school year, expanding the P-3 ...

Just over one-third of Grade 3 students in English programs met grade-level expectations for math during 2023-2024. That figure has remained stable over the last decade. maggie.macintosh@freepress ...

Texas lawmakers want to help young learners who are lagging behind in math and reading, an early setback that threatens to derail their path to high school graduation. More than half of third ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

Students can only receive exemptions to move up a grade if they are in special education, are an English Learner with less than 2 years in Indiana, have passed the ILEARN math assessment, have ...

Statistically, the most common symbol in mathematics is the equal sign, which appears in 94% of mathematical expressions. Almost 60% of statements deploy parentheses. Numbers take up only 13% of ...

In The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the Symbols (Princeton University Press, 2025), author and mathematician Raúl Rojas explores these and other examples of the complex, and ...

Eighth grade math Only four states exceeded Illinois’ performance in eighth grade math. Illinois students earned an average scale score of 277, surpassing the national average of 272.

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems, a common benchmark for testing LLMs. Then they slightly altered the wording without ...