It's happening: Your kid is in middle school! Aside from all the changes and transitions that sixth grade often involves, it also means learning new math skills. As concepts get more abstract and ...

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It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

Most U.S. adults think that math skills in general are important for the workforce—61% say these skills are very important, ...

Discussing problem-solving techniques and famous mathematicians helps elementary students learn math concepts.

At Lindley 6Th Grade Academy, 27% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 28% scored at or above that level for reading.The school’s minority student enrollment is 96%.

The least-proficient 12th grade readers are even further behind than they were in 1992, with scores that declined in that time period. The latest look at reading and math achievement for students ...

Here are two examples of math problems sixth graders may face using one of the new curricula. Can you solve them? We showed them to Stuyvesant High School teacher Gary Rubinstein, who blogs about ...

So how does Aaryan do it? To test his mental math-solving skills, the Guinness World Records team recently invited Aaryan to Dubai, where he was asked to solve some of the world’s toughest ...

In the fall of 2021, shortly after completing a master’s degree at the University of Waterloo, the math prodigy and cryptocurrency trader from Hamilton had conducted a complex series of ...

You can get in touch with Jack by emailing j.beresford@newsweek.com A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to ...

Citing statistics, he claimed that "70% of fourth graders are not proficient in reading or math." He also compared the US education ... One user mocked the president, stating, "A guy with a ...