Math anxiety, not ghosts, is scaring families this October as new test scores show American students falling further behind in math. The latest NAEP “report card” reveals that only 33% of U.S. high ...

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When faced with a complicated math problem, one fourth-grader decided to pass on answering, instead invoking the “girl code.” Last week, Maddy Douglas was assigned a number of word problems in her ...

Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...