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Prime numbers: A refresher. Some numbers are prime, like 5 and 173. This means they can only be divided by 1 and themselves. Most numbers are not prime, like 6, which can be divided by 2 and 3.
The New York State Education Department on Monday released some of the reading and math questions that appeared on this year’s third- through eighth-grade standardized tests. Below is one ...
State education officials in New Jersey got an earful from parents recently after third graders were given a standardized test question asking them to reveal a secret and explain why it was hard ...
The correct answer is D; 48% of third-grade students answered correctly. Students also had to complete short-answer math questions, which were graded out of two or three points. Courtesy of EngageNY ...