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Your Dec. 1 article, "Questions Raised on Graduation Test," noted that many school officials believe that the current proposed exam is too long and difficult.
Adults in the U.S. fall behind many of their developed-world counterparts in such basic areas as math, reading and problem-solving using technology, according to a newly released report authored ...
To put those results into context, as of 2017, 52 percent of U.S. adults read at one of PIAAC’s two lowest levels of five. One in 3 U.S. adults read at the test’s basic level, the second lowest.
You know the answer to this problem. You know you know the answer to this problem. Yet, somehow, the answer doesn’t come. The issue may not be what you know, but rather how you feel. Anxiety can ...
Previous research has shown that adults who suffer from math anxiety have problems with more complex operations such as addition that involves carrying, but not with simple addition or multiplication.
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Abbey Fortner knew she struggled with math at Francis Howell Central High School. But she said her teachers, instead of ...
Psychologist Véronique Izard discusses a study that suggests Amazonian villagers with no math schooling are just as equipped to solve basic geometry problems as math-trained adults, and cognitive ...