This month, New York State reported that just 22 percent of the eighth graders who took this year’s Common Core-aligned math test received a passing mark. To find out how you compare with an eighth ...

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 ...

Eighth-graders in the United States have made steady progress on an international test measuring math skills over the past two decades, but girls lag behind boys in 12th-grade advanced math and ...