Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

In September, Teresa Pritchard’s seventh grade math students Lydia Hawkins, Kyleigh Hardy, Isabella Wheeler and Brinkley Monceret at West Feliciana Middle School solve complex fractions.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The vast majority of RPS seventh-graders took the eighth-grade math Standards of Learning (SOL) test during the 2021-2022 school year, as opposed to the seventh-grade math SOL. And of ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

Teacher Jamie Gallimore uses a few new tactics in her seventh grade math classroom at Martin Middle School after working with district math coach Ed Baker. (Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report) In ...

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...