Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – On a mid-October day, Mr. John Whelan is playing a video on rounding numbers for his class. As the video finishes and Mr. Whelan begins the lesson, Zoey expresses her worries and ...

Hoping to help your fifth-grader with math skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest for fifth-graders. As the math they’re learning becomes more complicated and less obviously connected ...

Laura Bolick's fifth-grade math class at Maud Elementary has something to crow about. Her whole class, all 32 students, passed their STAAR math exam recently. "They all passed. 100 percent passed the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The new school year is quickly approaching, with students returning to class Thursday, and it’s never too early to start preparing and studying for the state exams next spring.

Teams of math-savvy fifth graders from across Baltimore competed in a cafeteria-sized game of arithmetical problem-solving Saturday morning in the city’s citadel of STEM learning, the Baltimore ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

The New York State Education Department is making it clear that the state tests to be given to third- through eighth-graders next month are going to be different -- and difficult. The tests are tied ...

I’m not going to say outright that I'm bad at math. As a parent, you're supposed to model self-confidence to your children. So even if you know your butt looks big in your jeans, you're supposed to ...