Educators, Experts Grapple With How to Improve Nation’s Plummeting Math Scores

With bad publicity from the latest national Report Card, academic and scholastic experts from the mathematics realm said change was needed and fast.
Educators, Experts Grapple With How to Improve Nation’s Plummeting Math Scores
Students at P-TECH high school in Brooklyn, New York City, build a ferris wheel as part of their interactive instruction during a 10th grade algebra and trigonometry class on Oct. 23. Amal Chen/The Epoch Times
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Education policy groups advocate for major reforms in K–12 math instruction, but disagree on long-term goals and the importance of standardized state test scores.

Proposed changes include more stringent teacher training programs and licensure requirements, better curricula, longer daily math periods, alternatives for managing elementary school classrooms with diverse ability levels, and updating high school course sequences with a greater focus on data science.

Aaron Gifford
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Aaron Gifford has written for several daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications and also served as a federal background investigator and Medicare fraud analyst. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and is based in Upstate New York.