Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

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U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test. The results were a surprise to ...

Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Even though they fared better than students in other states in reading, New Jersey public school students' math skills declined drastically, according to results of the first nationwide assessment of ...

North Carolina fourth- and eighth-grade students scored worse on math and reading exams this spring than before the pandemic, new federal data show. The drops in math scores are bigger than ever seen ...

WASHINGTON STATE — In a KOMO News Waste Watch Report, the math isn't penciling out in Washington. Math proficiency scores dropped again among the state's 8th-grade students, according to the National ...

Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...