There's a tale floating about that landed on my desk. Some of the particulars appear to be more accurate than others. Bottom line: A couple of ninth grade math classes at Richardson High School got a ...

Want to help your ninth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by ...

When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass the course by 9th grade, they’re unlikely to reach college-preparatory math in high school. There are too many courses to get through ...

Recently the Colorado Department of Education released the first-ever scores from the new PARCC tests, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, the new standardized tests for ...

Put down that calculator, teens — a new mental math component is part of the Grade 9 provincial achievement test (PAT) this year. Following Eggen’s move last year to add 15 calculator-free questions ...

More than 40 per cent of Grade 9 public school students failed their math provincial achievement tests last year — bringing the state of math in Alberta to what parents are calling a “crisis.” ...