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The reading and math skills of fourth and eighth grade students has declined in multiple U.S. states, according to a recent report, New Mexico having the lowest averages. Newsweek has contacted the ...

Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...