The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Sixth grade can ...

As their assignments become more complicated, you might start to feel that your child's math homework is outpacing your comfort level. Continue to review math materials with him before class and ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

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 ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Sixth grade students with lower mathematical ability perform better on complex arithmetic problems if they write down their calculations. Sixth grade students with lower mathematical ability perform ...

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 ...

When you think back on elementary school math, do you have fond memories of the countless worksheets you completed on adding fractions or solving division problems? Probably not. Researchers and ...