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A building trick learned in math class

A simple construction tip rooted in high school math that helps improve accuracy and efficiency on building projects. Sometimes the basics really do matter. Have you used math like this before?
Edutopia

Creating a Class Cookbook to Inspire Critical Thinking in Math

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

What does 6-7 mean? Las Vegas kids, teachers look back a 2025’s biggest trend

The “6, 7” chant has taken social media by storm, with children repeating the numbers in schools nationwide. Students say the ...
The New York Times

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...
Newsweek

Mom’s Take on What Kids Do in Gym Class Sparks Important Debate

A Colorado mom has sparked debate online for sharing her honest take on how physical education was taught in schools. The 37-year-old remembers being forced to run laps, play T-ball and feel ...
siliconera

Touhou Cirno’s Perfect Math Class Used to Promote McDonald’s

Like previous parody songs, the lyrics have been changed to reflect the menu item in question. Cirno advertises the three types of cheese that are in the pie (cheddar, gouda, and Camembert). Instead ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn’t Adding Up

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...
The Daily Signal

Thanks to the Woke Math Movement, Some Freshmen at UCSD Can’t Do Grade-Level Math

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...
Charlotte Observer

See how new NC math standards could change the classes high school students take

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school.