Americans who have trouble dividing 300 by 2 are much more likely to end up in foreclosure than consumers with average math skills, a new study has found. The research is among the first to directly ...

In her final year at James Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring, Amber Rountree chose to take consumer math, a course designed to teach students how to balance a checkbook and shop for a home ...

The headline on a recent Washington Post story reads: “Checkbook Math Increasingly Rare.” Daniel Devise reports that these practical math courses, aimed at teaching students “how to balance a ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TurinTurambar:<BR>As far as the lack of general math skills in the public ...