Next year, sixth- and seventh-graders in HISD will enroll in advanced math classes, preparing more students to take Algebra 1 ...

After a two-year pilot, the San Francisco Unified School District seems to have come up with a plan for bringing Algebra 1 back to eighth grade.

San Francisco school officials have released a long-awaited plan that allows proficient eighth-graders to skip ahead to ...

Houston ISD will place all sixth and seventh graders on an accelerated math pathway starting this fall, aiming for every ...

HISD plans to put all 6th–7th graders on an accelerated math track so Algebra I can happen in 8th grade, the district says.

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...

A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio ...

Education reformers often bemoan that schools never shed programs that are no longer needed or effective. New school initiatives are consequently layered on top of past practices, which means schools ...

It’s time for algebra to consistently be seen and experienced as more than a meandering stream of abstract variables and procedures Algebra can be breathtaking. Yet most people don’t encounter it this ...

This meme about not using Algebra has been making the rounds. We didn’t want to let the opportunity pass. So. Let’s talk about how many time you actually used math today. Just because there are no Xs ...