As the 2025-2026 school year winds down, OCPS 8th graders are facing a critical juncture: mastering systems of equations and cube roots, two concepts that often determine success in high school ...

Notably, taking Algebra 1 and 8th grade math together boosted all students’ scores—not just those of students who were less ...

Game-based learning is helping 8th graders connect with math by turning lessons into interactive challenges. Activities like probability simulations, algebra games, and adaptive digital platforms make ...

Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

(CNN) — Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment that shows the devastating impact of Covid-19 on ...

BOSTON – Massachusetts students lost the top spot in math and reading test scores and the organization known as "the nation's report card" says the COVID pandemic is to blame. New data from the ...

CAMERA LAST MONTH, THE PANDEMIC TOOK A TOLL ON STUDENT READING AND TEST SCORES. THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS REPORTS THE AVERAGE MATH SCORE FOR FOURTH GRADERS WAS FIVE POINTS LOWER ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The vast majority of RPS seventh-graders took the eighth-grade math Standards of Learning (SOL) test during the 2021-2022 school year, as opposed to the seventh-grade math SOL. And of ...

Students’ math scores nationwide dropped by the largest amount ever this year while reading scores also saw sharp declines, according to newly released Education Department data that provides the most ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam scores were released Monday. Nationwide, the results show students in fourth and eighth grade saw declines in math and ...

This article was originally published in South Carolina Daily Gazette. COLUMBIA — Fewer than half of South Carolina third- through eighth-grade students can do math as expected for their grade level, ...