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 ...

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

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A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.