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Dad Having 'Hard Time' With First-Grade Math Homework, and He's Not Alone

A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to be a problem for many young Americans. In 2022, the Programme for ...
Popular Mechanics

Adults Can't Seem to Understand This Math Problem for First Graders. Can You?

Is Oglethorpe University's Bill Shillito right? What does this math problem mean? You love numbers. So do we. Let's nerd out over numbers together. The shared problem follows a now-common formula with ...
NPR

Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...
7News Miami

Math and reading scores of 4th- and 8th-graders dropped during pandemic, report says. Math declines were the largest ever

(CNN) — Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment that shows the devastating impact of Covid-19 on ...