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When people think about the roots of a child’s struggles in math class, they may picture a tough teacher, a missed unit or a sudden loss of confidence around fractions. Our new study suggests we ...

Plenty of students have math anxiety. It turns out some educators have their own anxiety about teaching the subject, a new ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Students in grades 3-8 at Fort Worth ISD are further below grade level in mathematics than reading, according to STAAR test data.