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 ...

In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor of a stock exchange, with ...

Northside Middle School eighth grade math teacher Amber Benson reviews a slope exercise. She and co-teacher Ruby Voss said they try to make students stakeholders in each other’s success. Credit: ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. While the percentage of students who use a computer in math class at least once every few weeks has been ...

When Nathan Grebil pops in at Rian Lynam’s seventh-grade math class at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, it’s no accident. Grebil, hired this year by Reed Union School District trustees as a teacher ...

TROY, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - The Troy School District has responded to what officials claim is misinformation about the removal of the district's middle school honors math classes. A spokesperson with ...

As state and school leaders across the country push to have more students take algebra in 8th grade, a new study argues that middle schoolers struggling the most in math are being enrolled in that ...

“I think subject acceleration helps a lot. It challenges us and gives us what we need. I’d rather be challenged to where I’m learning - even if it means I don’t always get straight A’s. I think moving ...

CHICOPEE – A three-year experiment that created an all-girls math class at Edward Bellamy Middle School has ended in part because the students did not show they were doing any better than their peers ...