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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 ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

It’s a common experience for many New York City parents. They sit down to help their kids with math homework, only to be totally flummoxed. Part of the reason is math instruction has undergone a ...