More than half of city public-school students still don’t have a basic grasp of math and English, according to the latest round of state test results released Wednesday.

But students and parents are still in two minds. The board had rolled out Mathematics-Basic and Mathematics-Standard for the students taking boards exams to make the assessment more learner-centric.

Adults who are anxious about math have more difficulty doing even basic operations, such as counting six squares on a computer screen, than people who do not dread calculating a tip or the amount ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are ...