Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...
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 ...
This month, New York State reported that just 22 percent of the eighth graders who took this year’s Common Core-aligned math test received a passing mark. To find out how you compare with an eighth ...
Sports provide an engaging way of exploring a host of mathematical concepts. Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game can’t truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ask parent Janina Matuszeski what she has valued most about her twins’ experience in the Cambridge Public ...
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 ...
‏Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay ...