BLUEFIELD, W.V. – A class of first-graders in Bluefield, West Virginia reached a major milestone earlier this week. Diana Sandifer’s class at Bluefield Primary School set a goal to solve 200,000 math ...

A 7-year-old girl had her parents chuckling with the sassy answer she gave to a math problem at school. Carolann Smith from Bloomsbury, New Jersey, took to Reddit—posting under the handle ...

A deceivingly simple math question given to US students has left parents scratching their heads. Texas mom Tiesha Sanders shared a photo of a page of her child’s year one math homework with the ...

More Vermilion County first-graders put to test in math challenge By JENNIFER BAILEY jbailey@news-gazette.com May 1, 2025 1 of 9 ...

Local districts departed from some national trends. But girls’ scores still slid more than boys’, with a few exceptions.

SIOUX CITY — Alise Deck likes to play games with her sister, considers 78 to be her lucky number, and would like be an engineer when she grows up. More importantly, she love mathematics as well as ...

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We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...