UC-Berkeley math prof says she has to teach fractions to calculus students because standards have fallen so far

A well known University of California-Berkeley mathematics professor has slammed admissions standards at the top-flight ...

Gavin Newsom dodges SAT question as 1000+ UC professors warn college students can’t do basic math

Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to take a position on a raging debate over standardized testing in University of California ...

Berkeley math professor sounds alarm on liberal 'test-blind' policies, warns many students badly behind

A Berkeley professor attacked the University of California system's "test-blind" policies as calamitous, noting students were ...

SF high school where 94% flunk math has California’s highest Berkeley acceptance rate

San Francisco's Mission High School had the highest acceptance rate to UC Berkeley, finishing far ahead of all other public ...
Education Week

Middle and High School Students’ Struggles in Math: 4 Key Takeaways

While many school districts have been fixated in recent years on helping young students rebuild flagging math skills, there’s also a growing awareness that math learning among middle and high ...

10 Hard Math Problems That Even the Smartest People in the World Can’t Crack

Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

Cuemath Adapts K–12 Math Curriculum to Focus on Skills Beyond AI Capabilities Across 80+ Countries

The edtech platform amplified its core 1:1 tutoring with AI-powered personalized learning paths, shifting the focus ...
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Downsized and Resentful: What Happens When Your Grown Child Has to Pay Your Bills

A couple spent twenty years heating 3,400 square feet of empty rooms on a golf course, hid a foreclosure from their son for ...

Tariffs Are Flipping the Math: For Many Low-Volume Runs, Made-in-USA Clothing Now Beats Overseas on Total Cost, Plucky Reach Analysis Finds

New total-cost-of-ownership figures show domestic cut-and-sew running about 13% below overseas on a 100-unit run of a ...

NYC Real Estate Is Quiet. Prices Aren’t.

But the current market has a basic imbalance that is hard to resolve quickly. Existing housing is expensive to reproduce, new ...
Opinion

'Five to eight years behind': UC Berkeley professor raises alarm over student math skills

A UC Berkeley mathematics professor has raised concerns about declining math preparedness among incoming calculus students. Zvezdelina Stankova says some students arrive five to eight years behind in ...