Many students with math disabilities find complex, multistep math problems particularly difficult. Even children who did well in their early school years -- easily learning basic arithmetic and ...

Success in math relies, in part, on the retrieval of memorized facts and the ability to remember the procedural steps required to solve a problem. A fourth-grade boy and a third-grade girl share ...

These are “sharp, steep declines,” said Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which manages TIMSS in the United States, in a call with reporters on Tuesday.