In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II. That’s the usual three-year sequence of high school math courses for students who want to attend one of the 23 campuses in the California State University system. But ...

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 to ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

Alabama made the biggest gains in the country in fourth grade math this year, new data shows, with scores reaching within one point of the national average. The state’s dramatic climb on the Nation’s ...