While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...
How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...
Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...
‏Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay ...
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 ...
My recent column on the controversy over letting eighth-graders take algebra brought a torrent of anguished comments from parents and other experts who think math instruction is in crisis. This is a ...
ST. JOHN — After five years of offering an algebra class for high-ability seventh-grade students instead of the regular advanced math course, Lake Central schools has decided to drop it in the face of ...
Sumner County schools may replace Algebra I with other mathematics classes to help close knowledge gaps starting in 2015-16. Although a letter sent Saturday to parents from Hawkins Middle School ...
A growing number of advanced sixth-graders on Long Island and elsewhere could be taking algebra courses typically taken by ninth-graders, under new rules approved Tuesday by the state's Board of ...
Every California eighth-grader will be tested in algebra -- ready or not -- under a policy approved Wednesday that could make the state the first in the nation to require an upper-level math class ...