Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing students on their speed in solving problems -- because it stresses them out. The ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods like timed tests.