News article: Math skills suffer in the U.S.

I found this an interesting read; the study it talks about has found how undervalued math and math skills are in the States. As a result, very few kids want to pursue it.

Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds

QUOTE:
"The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued."

Worksheet news

Some worksheet-related news from HomeschoolMath.net site:

• Grade 5 worksheets - ready-made worksheets, yet different (randomly generated) each time.
  
  
• Decimal worksheets generator just got better. Now you can let the number of decimals vary randomly in the problems. Also includes a bunch of ready-made worksheets that you generate just by clicking on links.
  
  
• Addition worksheet generator got better also. Now you can set the range individually for addends 3-6, and randomly switch all the addends (previously only addends 1 and 2). This page also has some links to click on to make worksheets readily, without actually bothering with the generator itself.
  

Decimals worksheet generator

UPDATED! My Decimal worksheets generator just got better. Now you can vary the number of decimals randomly in the problems.

Also, the page now includes a bunch of ready-made worksheets that you generate just by clicking on links - what could be easier than that? Of course you can still use the generator to tailor-make worksheets to your exact needs.

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