Almost everything we know about education today says that my 3-year-old son will do better than his twin sister in math and science. Years before my twins were born I founded the Silicon Valley ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. While the percentage of students who use a computer in math class at least once every few weeks has been ...

Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

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 ...

correctionA previous version of this article included a photo caption that incorrectly said a student in an eighth-grade math class was working on a slope equation. The student was ordering real ...

When Nathan Grebil pops in at Rian Lynam’s seventh-grade math class at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, it’s no accident. Grebil, hired this year by Reed Union School District trustees as a teacher ...