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A: American 15-year-olds are worse at math, generally speaking, than their first-world peers.
B: Overall math scores improve on an American standardized test, particularly among students in the 4th and 8th grades [~age 10, age 13; respectively].
C: Google: 'Poll Shows Math Most-Hated School Subject'. Google's link now dead; couldn't find another.
D: On the SAT, America's most common university/college entrance exam, math scores reach a 36-year high.
E: Compared to other first-world peers, Americans in the 4th and 8th grades are now doing a little better in math. Results in reading, however, when compared to international peers, are 'mixed'.
F: George W Bush singles out math and science as 'economic tools'.