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 ...

Students who take Algebra 1 in eighth grade and do well ... proportions and ratios, as opposed to moving more quickly into the more abstract kinds of mathematics,” Galanti says.

U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test. The results were a surprise ...

Illinois eighth grade students outperformed national averages in reading, math. Fourth grade, eighth grade, and the 12th grade are tested, but the 12th grade results have not yet been released.

Test scores for eighth-grade students in the US declined in both ... last fall scores for American nine-year-olds in reading and math fell by a level not seen in decades. “Self-government ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have ...

That’s despite recent efforts to change how preschool through fifth-grade teachers ... 75% of North Carolina eighth-graders tested at basic, proficient or advanced levels in math.

but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan research group. On Friday, Edunomics Lab, a Georgetown University research center ...

Math proficiency scores dropped again among the state's 8th-grade students, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), aka the Nation's Report Card, released late last month.

North Carolina fourth- and eighth-grade students scored worse on math and reading exams this spring than before the pandemic, new federal data show. The drops in math scores are bigger than ever ...