Math

College students are struggling with basic math, with many stuck at a basic high school level. Meanwhile, their professors are blaming the Chinese coronavirus pandemic for massive academic setbacks. The Math chair of Temple University says, “It’s not just that they’re unprepared, they’re almost damaged. I hate to use that term, but they’re so behind.”

The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new math framework on Wednesday that adds “meaning-making,” social justice, and an “inquiry” based approach to the curriculum.

The average reading and math test scores for U.S. 13-year-olds have plummeted since 2020, according to data from National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The decline in math skills for children this age is “the single largest decline” in the past half century according to experts.

Dozens of Chicago schools have reportedly claimed none of their students are proficient in math or reading.

A pro-trans organization is pushing for “trans and non-binary” inclusive math curriculums that advance gender ideology.

A Florida Christian school teacher who allegedly sexted with her 18-year-old pupil and schemed to hustle him “into her home while her husband was at work” was arrested, WCTV reported. 

Another open letter from California academics warns against the proposed K-12 math framework that prioritizes woke social justice ideology.

A parent told his school board their job is to teach “math and science,” not Critical Race Theory, which is teaching “white people are bad.”

The Virginia Department of Education may cut advanced math classes for some students in a move critics claim is a push for “equity.”

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced Tuesday the U.S. math and reading assessments known as the “Nation’s Report Card” will be postponed until 2022 due largely to the reliance on remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Mathematical Association of America recently released a statement in which it pushed back against President Donald Trump’s recent executive to curtail the teaching of critical race theory. The association argued that mathematics contains “human biases” that can only be corrected by promoting critical race theory and other radical doctrines developed on college campuses over the past two decades to math educators and students.

Twenty-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu is known in India and all over the world as the “world’s fastest human calculator,” but it was not always this way.

On Sunday, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health promoted research on Twitter by one doctoral student that claims that two plus two can equal five. The research was quickly mocked by Twitter users, many of whom questioned the value of a Harvard education.

Brooklyn College Professor Laurie Rubel argued this week on Twitter that the mathematical equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” Rubel’s tweet was retweeted and promoted by several academics at universities and colleges around the nation.

What happened on MSNBC Thursday night was an insightful illustration of how unthinking and dogmatic the media are, the tunnel vision of demagogues.

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced on Tuesday he is shutting down his presidential campaign after dismal results in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary, but he also is signaling that his future may include another run for the White House.

Seattle schools are putting into place a K-12 curriculum to teach about how Western culture has “appropriated” math and used it to oppress minorities.

The Seattle public schools are using math (of all things) as just one more gateway drug into the destructive addiction of victimization.

Leftist educators around the nation are campaigning to eradicate “racism” and “whiteness” from math curricula.

The largest city in the Philippines will implement an Israeli education model in one of its public high schools, it was announced this week.

Most public school teachers say mass immigration has a “mixed” or a “negative” impact on American schoolkids.

A group of parents and students has filed what it hopes will be a landmark lawsuit against the State of California for its public schools failing to teach literacy.

Mass immigration to the United States has had a depressing impact on reading and math proficiency skills among immigrant students, a new study finds.

A college math professor went high-tech when he decided to play an April Fool’s Day prank on his students.

Two psychologists in Finland have concluded that religious believers are bad at math and physics, have poor mechanical abilities and don’t have a good sense of the physical and biological world.

A New York professor has sparked a debate among educators over whether or not algebra is too hard and should be dropped from the curriculum.