I WAS raised in a home where arithmetic was important. Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in suburban, car-oriented Detroit, my father always carried a slide rule and wore a white-shirt-pocket-protector.

They had the credits. They completed their senior projects. They passed the reading and writing sections of the WASL or a state-approved alternative. They still couldn’t graduate. A few Snohomish ...

Tina Fey wanted to play a math teacher in 'Mean Girls' to counteract cultural narratives that girls/women are bad at math. “Some of the material in Mean Girls was about this period in my life when I ...

Calculating the mean is one of many methods of finding an average. To calculate the mean, you add up all the numbers in the set, then divide the total by the number of numbers you added. The mean ...

The table above (click to enlarge) shows mean test scores and standard deviations for the SAT exam on the three different sections (reading, math and writing), broken down by gender (data available ...