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 ...

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Ever wondered how your mind deals with complex sums and multiplications? A new study has imaged how the brain's activity levels change while taking on serious math problems, and reveals for the first ...