From the NY Times, an article “As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics” about rethinking the teaching of “fuzzy math” in American schools. “The changes are being driven by students’ lagging ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

What constitutes quality mathematics instruction? And, if we don’t have it in schools now, how do we get it? In this Education Week Commentary, Jere Confrey warns that setting standards will not be ...

Recent gains by U.S. students on an international-comparison test show that the much-maligned “reform math” is in fact working, a middle school math teacher writes in an opinion piece published in The ...

A report released today by the National Council on Teacher Quality gave college teacher-training programs a failing grade for their preparation of teachers to teach elementary- and middle-school ...

ALBANY — How can you pass a test if you only get 26 of 86 points? Take the New York State Regents Algebra 1 exam. The fuzzy math, critics say, illustrates how New York policymakers have become so ...

I was born without the math gene, so I thought I was the only one confused by what the Bush Administration does with numbers. It just seemed so fuzzy to me. The term "fuzzy math" was coined during a ...

During an April 2 floor debate, New Jersey Democrat Rob Andrews criticized Republicans for citing a study that “ the author claims is just being blatantly misrepresented,” and the House energy ...