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 ...

Measure your hand. Create and use a line plot of hand span data to answer questions. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to find the mistake made in counting up on a number line to subtract. Notice ...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin ...