As your kids get older, that school supply list may get shorter, but not necessarily cheaper. One item that can cause sticker shock for parents of middle and high school students is a specialized ...

“It’s hard to believe, but my students were among the first in the world to do it,” gushes middle school math teacher Cathy Yenca. “And after two test runs prior to testing day, there really weren’t ...

Sometimes you just need to make a graph. If your TI-84 isn’t handy, Desmos Graphing Calculator is a good backup to have. The app accepts both functions and tables of x and y values as inputs and ...

(CNNMoney) A glimmer of hope has arrived for parents tired of having to buy their high school students an overpriced calculator. Smarter Balanced, which administers school proficiency tests in 15 ...

The Smarter Balanced test group announced today that it has partnered with Desmos, a company that created a free online graphing calculator that is giving Texas Instruments a run for its money. As of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (DC News Now) — The days of using hand-held calculators aren’t entirely gone, but when it comes to testing in Virginia, they’re not as prevalent as they once were. The Virginia ...

One of my favorite demos at Disrupt NYC was from an education startup called Desmos that is reinventing the whiteboard to make it browser-based and interactive (watch their Disrupt video below). One ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article included inaccurate phrasing regarding the findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Data extracted from NAEP show the percentage of ...

Young people these days live most of their lives online, so why shouldn’t they be plotting graphs and performing advanced calculations there as well? For the first time this spring, students taking ...