How many can you get right? No peeking at a dictionary for this surprisingly tricky 4th grade spelling words quiz. Remember those 4th grade spelling words quizzes we took in elementary school?

The OED says that these words “may be obscure technical terms or terms restricted to occasional historical use”. But do you know their meaning? Take our quiz and find out.

Math is a fascinating subject that you can actually use in many places in your everyday life. There are also a lot of ways to just have fun with math, like looking at the numbers that are involved ...

School Words Quiz Help your child learn some essential school words with their Alphablocks friends. Challenge your little one to identify key words they'll encounter at school, and find out about ...

In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German. Pour yourself a cold one and take the quiz. Prost! (That’s ...

In our latest word game, we’re challenging you to fill in the blanks and figure out the words. In each of these words, there are only two missing letters—e.g., if the example is __N__ __ __A__ ...

Submit in words, images, audio or video, from Oct. 2 to Nov. 4. By Katherine Schulten What Have You Seen Online Lately That Could Use Some Fact-Checking? This Media Literacy Week, we challenge ...

In our latest word game, we’re challenging you to fill in the blanks and figure out the words. In each of these words, there are only two missing letters—e.g., if the example is __ __ R ...

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 school’s turnaround is one piece of a larger academic ascent in Dallas ISD, which has seen steady gains in student ...

Ben Zimmer has written the Word on the Street column for The Wall Street Journal since June 2013. Previously, he was the language columnist for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine ...