Opinions, strategies and ideas based on latest research around Math and Education.
Education
Your child has an i-Ready score from one year and a MAP score from another, or your district just switched from one test to the other, and the two math numbers look nothing alike. They are not supposed to.
Education
Every all-in-one homeschool curriculum ships with a math course already inside, and across the seven programs on this page that course is one of two kinds. None of these boxes places a child against the grade standards a school would use.
Education
The NNAT and the CogAT are both ability tests districts use to screen for gifted and advanced programs, but they measure different things. A score on one does not translate to a score on the other.
Education
MATHCOUNTS is a live math competition for students in grades 6-8, run by the MATHCOUNTS Foundation, and the school enters it, not the parent. A school registers up to 14 students, names a coach, and sends them to a local chapter competition in February 2027.
Education
By the end of kindergarten, the published standards expect a child to count to 100 by ones and by tens, count out up to 20 objects, and write the numbers 0 to 20. The list is short, and most of it is number.
Education
Your child's school calls it SBAC, CAASPP, OSAS, or something else, and the score report arrives full of four-digit numbers. This guide explains what the Smarter Balanced test is, what it asks, how scoring works, and what the result actually means for your child.
Education
NJSLA is New Jersey's yearly assessment in English language arts, math, and science for grades 3 through 11. This guide breaks down what it actually tests, how the 2026 shift to computer-adaptive testing changes scoring, and what a score report does and doesn't tell you about your child.
Education
Year 3 NAPLAN is the first time your child sits Australia's national literacy and numeracy assessment. Here is what the 2027 numeracy test covers, what the questions look like, and how to prepare without over-preparing.
Education
The Australian Curriculum shapes what every child learns from Foundation to Year 10, but stage names, NAPLAN windows and A–E grades differ enough by state to confuse even organised parents. This guide walks through the stages, subjects, assessments and state differences.
Education
Schools enter children into most Australian maths competitions — parents can't just book a spot, and entries often close months early. This guide covers every major competition: the year levels each one takes, the latest fee, and how to get your child entered.
Education
Your child's homework has hops and arrows where the subtraction used to be. Here's the exact reasoning behind it, broken into the three skills kids build between Grade 1 and Grade 3, plus practice they can try today.
Education
Three Bay Area districts hand the math acceleration decision to three different parties. The same child, with the same report card, can land differently across a district line.