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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Mastering algebra is widely considered the gateway to higher mathematics and college readiness, but new studies question whether low-performing students benefit from ...

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 ...

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 ...

This horse algebra question may seem simple – but it’s leaving the internet baffled. The maths puzzle has four questions, the first three of which have answers. But to arrive at the solution you have ...