Want to help your sixth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. In a herd of horses, the ratio of legs to tails is 4 to 1 (or 4:1) because ...

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Fifty-eight percent of parents said their child has asked for their help with math Homeschooling is not so easy. The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the ...

The Common Core, the set of federal educational guidelines being implemented in schools across the country, is attracting a lot of ire. For years, teachers have complained that Common Core will ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - It's often hard for parents to get their kids to be smart with their money, but a program at Hellgate Elementary is teaching students just that. The program is called Biz World, and ...

The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...

Kindergartners through fifth-graders in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District may use new math materials by next school year, but sixth-graders could continue using Swun Math, a program that ...

Putting their math skills to the test…that’s what 5th and 6th graders were doing at Cato Middle School. Today’s BCSD’s Math Bowl aim to show why now more than ever math is so important. Not only were ...

Virginia is one of the few states not to sign on to the Common Core State Standards. But that doesn’t mean its content standards, and its tests, won’t get more difficult. In fact, the state just ...

Putting their math skills to the test…that’s what 5 th and 6 th graders were doing at Cato Middle School. Today’s BCSD’s Math Bowl aim to show why now more than ever math is so important. Not only ...