In both math and science, the divide between the nation’s highest- and lowest-performing 8th graders continues to widen on national and international tests, and ongoing gaps in access and support to ...

There were problems at Spring Lake Regional Park on Wednesday. Good ones! Some of Sonoma County’s sharpest mathematics students divided up into teams and with youthful verve set out to solve them.

The reason why people are divided is because there are two different ways of solving math problems. For the PEMDAS method you solve in the order of: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, ...