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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 ...

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Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

Easton Area’s sixth-graders should know the answer to the equation 2 x 43 + 4. That’s how many minutes they’ll be spending in math next year, when the school district gives its youngest middle ...

“The most important thing I learned in this project is to work well with your partners and how all the businesses in the world use math to be successful in business,” said sixth-grader Isaac Gardner.

It was intended to be a rigorous lesson on the complexities of ratios and cross multiplication. But some of the students in teacher Yong Li She’s sixth-grade math class had other ideas. One boy threw ...

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 ...

When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when ...

STAMFORD -- On a recent Thursday, a string was strung, clothesline-style, across the front of social studies teacher Heather Lorenz's classroom at Turn of River Middle School. After her class of about ...

"He just went above and beyond... He's such a good teacher and a great man," Josh Anderson says of his daughter Rylee's teacher Chris Waba Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for ...