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 ...

Syracuse, NY -- Cazenovia High School eighth-grader Taylor Ketcham wants to be an oceanographer when she grows up. Emily Leary, an eighth-grader at Wellwood Middle School in the Fayetteville-Manlius ...

The latest sensation in my house is the new TV game show "Are You Smarter than A 5th Grader?" My kids like showing off what they know, and they like to laugh at the adult contestants who get stumped ...

The State Board of Education will be able to disentangle competing math standards that have been creating confusion over what should be taught in eighth grade, under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry ...