The shocking rise of Gen Z college freshmen who can’t even do basic math — as grade inflation means graduation rates are rising

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT ...

Gen Z has a case of long Covid — and society is enabling it

Gen Z has a case of long Covid — and society is enabling it. It’s been five years since the pandemic, but schools are ...
The Hechinger Report

How can schools dig out from a generation’s worth of lost math progress?

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. This story on ...
Forbes

A Teacher-Founded Nonprofit Makes Math Relevant To Gen Z

An AP Statistics teacher decided to ask his students what they wanted to learn about. The results are a curriculum that makes math feel relevant to students' interests. In a high-poverty school in San ...
Gizmochina

TAL’s MathGPT launches public beta: your next-gen math assistant

During its 20th-anniversary event, TAL Education Group launched the public beta testing of its innovative mathematical large model, MathGPT. This LLM model is designed primarily for global mathematics ...
Houston Chronicle

Students' math skills have fallen. This nonprofit hopes to create the next generation of inventors

Houston ISD seventh grader Xavier Cherkas can solve a Rubik's cube in less than a minute. He's been a math whiz since he was 2, when he began reciting polygons and counting as high as he could, his ...
Texas Monthly

Is There a Better Solution to Our Public Schools’ Math Problem?

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...