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 ...

October 2, 2025 - Saran Tugsjargal found herself wondering who would stand up for students like her. Little did she know that she would become that person. Imagine you’re 16. You’ve just passed your ...

The SOF International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) is a premier annual math competition for students in Classes 1 to 12.

The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

The Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA) tests your mathematical thinking and reasoning skills. Which LSE programmes use the TMUA in their selection process? For these two programmes ...

(Updated Thursday with additional information. For new version of AB 484, go here). In order to avoid serving two masters – the old state academic standards and the new multi-state Common Core ...

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 ...

There has been a long-standing, and often very emotional debate about whether there are any gender differences in mathematical ability. If you have any doubts about how emotional and irrational the ...