In the sweltering heat of a July day, you might not expect to find classrooms bustling with activity and the voices of kids ...

But in the case of math proficiency, where the gaps are even wider, there are precious few evidence-based programs available to work with students in or out of school.

“Mathematics is the study of patterns,” Siena College computer science professor Jim Matthews said. “It was never about the Pythagorean theorem.” Valerie Barr teaches a computer science ...