A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.
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Editorial | Lower expectations, lower skills for UC students

Uh oh. Many freshmen at a top University of California campus can’t manage to do middle-school math. An analysis by a joint faculty-administration committee on student preparation at UC San Diego – ...
Many grown adults struggle with some of the basic concepts they learned back in fifth grade. It's not that you’re not smart—it’s just that sometimes, life doesn’t require you to remember the specifics ...
Introduction: The Great Mathematical Divorce There is a silent tragedy unfolding in our mathematics classrooms across Ghana .
This year's basic school mathematics final exam results continue to show major disparities between schools. While failure ...
Strengthening middle-grade support, introducing Foundational Literacy and Numeracy+ skills, and making math more connected to ...
“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...
A report released on Nov 6 by UCSD's Senate-Administration Working Group (SAWG) on Admissions found significant decreases in ...
People have been urged to make sure they understand the rules around the state pension. The benefit remains a key part of many older people's retirement finances, so it's important to understand how ...
Abstract: This paper aimed to investigate the effect of a mobile app on mathematics learning in authentic contexts. Authentic contexts contain rich resources wherein students can use authentic objects ...