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This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

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Coming up: a growing math problem for higher education. Coming up: a growing math problem for higher education. UC San Diego is among many universities where students are struggling, and we examine ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

The Los Angeles Unified students achieved record-high performance on the 2025 California Assessments of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), the California Department of Education announced last ...