As their assignments become more complicated, you might start to feel that your child's math homework is outpacing your comfort level. Continue to review math materials with him before class and ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

Aaron Jawson regularly spends time reteaching the basics to his sixth grade math students. They often have a bit of a complex ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Sixth grade can ...

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...

“The most important thing I learned in this project is to work well with your partners and how all the businesses in the world use math to be successful in business,” said sixth-grader Isaac Gardner.

Near the end of sixth grade, Bronia DePedrina’s daughter became anxious and stressed about going to school.