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 ...

Northside Middle School eighth grade math teacher Amber Benson reviews a slope exercise. She and co-teacher Ruby Voss said they try to make students stakeholders in each other’s success. Credit: ...

Figuring out puzzles, solving ciphers, finding objects hiding in plain view … it’s all in a day’s work for one eighth-grade math class. In May, eighth-graders in one of Nathan Dunham’s classes used ...

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Oroville >> In a classroom at Hearthstone school, teacher Christine Holzhauer has more than a dozen totem sculptures created by her students on display. Students didn’t create the pieces for an art ...

In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor of a stock exchange, with ...

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 ...