The three-day competition begins Tuesday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee and 14 North Carolina students are among the competitors. Ask Jae Canetti to recite pi, and the numbers come out like a ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

These two programs from Knowledge Adventure provide effective after-school practice for kids in grades 1 through 5 who need help with math or spelling. In Spelling Bee, kids capture fish and other sea ...

If Ms. Smith’s 8th grade algebra class works through 10 word problems in an hour, and Ms. Jones’ class works through 10 equation problems during the same time, which class is likely to learn more math ...