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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and discovered something remarkable: reading comprehension had a significantly strong ...

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 ...

Math scores of California’s average eighth graders on standardized tests in 2021 were in line with the knowledge and skills of fifth graders, according to a new analysis of the state’s Smarter ...