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WAYNESVILLE — Sixth-graders at Waynesville Middle School are the standard bearers in the state for achievements in a widely-used online math program. As of Oct. 20, the 362-student school building for ...

Want to help your sixth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. In a herd of horses, the ratio of legs to tails is 4 to 1 (or 4:1) because ...

Jesse Elicker, math clinician at Good Hope Middle School, began his Tuesday morning pre-algebra class with a game of “Guess the Function.” A series of numbers was displayed on the Smart Board behind ...

Jefferson Middle School sixth-graders on Team Endeavor received a visit from JCC math professors Rick Rupprecht and Patrick Anderson. The professors helped Jefferson students develop their math skills ...

Fifty-eight percent of parents said their child has asked for their help with math Homeschooling is not so easy. The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the ...

Sixth graders in the math class taught by Marietta Gibb and Nicole Parasiliti at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca work in small groups, allowing kids to practice different skills in the same classroom.

QUAPAW, Okla. — Sixth-graders from Pittsburg, Kan., on Tuesday used measurement, multiplication, division, geometry and teamwork. The end result was an 8- by 11-foot building that was 10 feet high.