Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When faced with a complicated math problem, one fourth-grader decided to pass on answering, instead invoking the “girl code.” Last ...

Mississippi fourth graders’ average math scores on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress were higher than ...

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-graders work in their classroom at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena in 2023. Tests scores of fourth- and ...

Every two years, hundreds of thousands of American fourth and eighth grade students take a test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The test evaluates students’ reading and math ...

Every now and again, homework takes social media by storm. Sometimes it’s a young child’s vexing assignment, or a classic brain teaser. But the problem above that’s stirred such debate is really just ...

Critics sounded off on a math textbook in Collier County, Florida, approved by the school board that appeared to include emotionally based questions that appeared to have nothing to do with numbers or ...

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 ...

Nationally, math and English scores were flat or fell. LAUSD did better in fourth-grade math, a bright spot. Students are reading less for pleasure. Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era ...