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 ...

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 ...

Forty-one percent of Maryland eighth-graders cannot do mathematics considered basic for their grade level, says a federal report released yesterday. The 1992 National Assessment of Educational ...