California may soon test children on math as early as kindergarten in effort to curb dismal scores

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

‘Too pretty to do math’? Here’s the real reason girls aren’t choosing to study maths

Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...
Nature

Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows that systems still fall short of top human expertise. Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet ...
Los Angeles Times

UC to consider reinstating SAT, ACT tests after faculty say students are deficient in math

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Teens' reading and math scores have stagnated, U.S. test results show

WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic's disruptions while older students' test scores continue to stagnate, according to the latest testing data ...
Scientific American

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.
NPR

After years of declines, young students show gains in reading and math

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...
The Atlantic

Actually, the SAT Was Necessary After All

Zvezdelina Stankova has taught mathematics at UC Berkeley for nearly three decades. But in 2023, while teaching introductory calculus for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic ...
Yahoo

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

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Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

Students and faculty walk the courtyard at UC Irvine. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) More than 600 University of California faculty members, led by mathematicians at UC Berkeley, are calling ...
Time

‘Learning Recession’: Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Decline Across the U.S.

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Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...