The Greenwich and Bridgeport public school districts may be worlds apart when it comes to academic outcomes, but the two Fairfield County school districts have at least one thing in common: Singapore ...

Here’s a little math problem: In 2005, just 45% of the fifth-graders at Ramona Elementary School in Hollywood scored at grade level on a standardized state test. In 2006, that figure rose to 76%. What ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Sally made 500 gingerbread men. She sold 3/4 of them and gave away 2/5 of the remainder. How many did she give away? This was one of the homework questions in Craig Parsley’s fifth-grade class. The ...