Narrow math tests inevitably drive down real standards because accountability pressures principals and teachers to teach to the test. Conversely, well-engineered tests of the math we actually want ...

The exams were intended to test student achievement in math. After a disastrous performance last school year by middle and high school students, the “common semester assessments” have become a test in ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve geometry problems about as good at the average 11th-grade student. That means about 500 ...

Even if you never learned the difference between a triangle, a rectangle and a trapezoid, and you never used a ruler, a compass or a map, you would still do well on some basic geometry tests, ...

Hooda Math has updated its free timed math tests to work on any Internet-connected device. Covering addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the tests can be set by students or teachers to ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Mathematics plays a central role in winnowing opportunities for students to enter and succeed in college. In California, ...

A growing number of Long Island educators, upset by three straight years of declining student performance on a revamped Regents Geometry exam, are angling for change and pressing the state to lower ...

On any given ACT math section, 40-43% of the questions will fall under the category of Integrating Essential Skills, or IES. The makers of the ACT describe these question types as more complex because ...

The common math assessments under development by PARCC will be translated into Spanish and possibly other languages, but whether English-language learners will have access to non-English versions will ...