Smith Mountain Eagle

Seventh grade math students grow a lunar garden

What will grow on the moon?Seventh-grade students in Jennifer Hatch’s math class at Benjamin Franklin Middle School are ...
The State Press

ASU student group brings hands-on science to local elementary classrooms

Science Detectives, an ASU student-led organization, provides free, hands-on science lessons for third to sixth-grade students from Tempe and Mesa. Run primarily by undergraduate volunteers, the club ...
Education Week

‘Sharp, Steep Declines': U.S. Students Are Falling Behind in Math and Science

More countries are edging ahead of the United States in math and science achievement, according to the latest results from an international test of 4th and 8th graders in the subjects. The Trends in ...
Business Wire

Survey Shows 82% of U.S. Students in Grades 7-10 Are Fearful of Math, Risking America’s Ability to Compete for STEM Jobs

BENGALURU, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. students’ fear of math is accelerating, according to a recent survey gauging student confidence in their math abilities, proficiency and correlation between ...