Even children who did well in their early school years -- easily learning basic arithmetic and math facts -- may reach fourth grade and suddenly find math next to impossible. Integration is an ...
Between 2019 and 2023, test scores for American fourth graders in math dropped by 18 points and scores for eighth graders ...
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.