COMMENTARY: For too many American kids, math isn’t adding up The decline in math scores in recent years reflects a more systemic problem: To fix what ails American education, teachers need to stick with the science and let kids get back to the facts
American Kids Cant Do Math Anymore - Slashdot American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore (theatlantic com) 250 Posted by msmash on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:03AM from the grave-concerns dept
The American Math Crisis - The Ringer One is that American kids can’t do math: That’s the headline of a recent Atlantic article by Rose Horowitch Another frame, as Kelsey Piper writes in the online magazine The Argument, is that
American Kids Cant Do Math Anymore - by Slashdot American Kids Can't Do Math AnymoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure The results are coming into focus Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at UC San