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A brain teaser shared on Facebook challenged users with a simple maths puzzle that caused confusion due to its tricky wording.
The state’s reading and math FAST exams, implemented in 2023, are “progress-monitoring tests,” meaning students take them three times a year. The first two tests aim to show what students ...
Reading scores stagnated. Math scores jumped compared with the early '90s, but haven't gone up in a decade. What's happening to America's students?
The test, part of a training class for a labor or trade-related job, required participants to convert millimeters to centimeters and meters. The poster answered "50 cm = .50 m," but was told the ...
Taking a closer look, Illinois students did well in math, with 62% of eighth graders performing at or above grade level and 32% at or above proficiency, a 6% increase since 2022.
For eighth graders, the average math score of 245 was the same as in 2022 and lower than the average of 257 in 2009. The national test also revealed score gaps between student groups in 2024.
America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known ...
In eighth grade, the average math score in Michigan was 270 in 2024, compared with 273 in 2022, which was categorized as not a significant change, and 280 in 2019.
A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. “We need more teachers ...
A sign on a computer lab at Portland's Abernethy Elementary School tells students and staff to stay out, while state testing takes place. Rob Manning / OPB Oregon’s latest summative test data ...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who ...