More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

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A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly. By Soumya Karlamangla How to make algebra ...

Sorry, it’s math time. But these are some of the easiest math quizzes we’ve ever put on BuzzFeed. They have 54 questions between them that you should find easy to ...

Oddly, perhaps, one of my favorite Peanuts cartoon strips shows Snoopy in his usual nighttime position, lying on his back atop his beloved dog house. His thought bubble says, “Yet another year has ...

The New York Times ran a piece last weekend by Andrew Hacker, a professor of political science at Queens College of the City University of New York, who asked whether algebra was necessary, and then ...