When Natasha Smith’s 11-year-old son sat down to email his teacher, she was shocked to read what he had sent. The 40-year-old mom from Washington state was helping her sixth grader with homework when ...

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Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a word. It’s the viral term “6-7” that kids and ...

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 ...

TODAY’S WORD — VICTORIOUS (VICTORIOUS: vik-TOR-ee-us: Having overcome an enemy or antagonist.) Average mark 34 words Time limit 50 minutes Can you find 43 or more words in VICTORIOUS? The list will be ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

"I thought I was so tough," one senior jokes while watching a video of his younger self A group of five seniors responded to questions from their sixth-grade selves in a now-viral video posted by ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

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