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 ...

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 ...

California 8th graders ranked in the middle of the pack overall but behind seven of eight states in math and science in the latest international tests. The rankings are based on the Trends in ...

Washington is one of 15 states where eighth-grade math scores rose on a closely watched exam known as the “nation’s report card.” The average fourth-grade math score on the National Assessment of ...