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Students in Mrs. Celestial Piedra's 6th grade class at Franklin Elementary School in Rahway used Geoboards to reinforce an area and perimeter lesson. Students found the hands-on activity useful.

Sixth grade students with lower mathematical ability perform better on complex arithmetic problems if they write down their calculations. Sixth grade students with lower mathematical ability perform ...

TRACY — It wasn’t exactly “The Price is Right,” but a number of Monte Vista Middle School students were invited to “come on down” to the local Save Mart for a real-life math lesson. Sixth-grade ...

“The most important thing I learned in this project is to work well with your partners and how all the businesses in the world use math to be successful in business,” said sixth-grader Isaac Gardner.