Today, remedial math has been eliminated in the district’s main high schools and nearly all students are in ninth grade algebra or a more advanced class, except for students with severe disabilities.

Updated at 11:00 a.m. ET on October 5, 2023. When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative ...

Highlights of revised math framework. Guiding principles: The revision affirms the commitment that all students can succeed at high levels by making math engaging and relevant and teaching through ...

Between 2017 and 2019, district leaders in the Cambridge Public Schools phased out the practice of placing middle school students into “accelerated” or “grade-level” math classes.

Responding to an urgent need for innovative approaches that foster success in algebra for high-need students, the team is examining the impact of TTA on students’ algebra achievement and attitudes ...

By double-dosing students with math concepts in seventh grade — couched in an approach that stresses projects with real-world applications over worksheets — the thinking is they will be better ...

Nearly half of the wealthiest schools offered algebra to all of their eighth grade students, regardless of math ability, compared with about a third of the poorest schools. Slide from a RAND webinar, ...

Algebra is seen as the gateway to higher math courses and to STEM fields. Nationally, of that quarter of eighth graders enrolled in Algebra 1, more than a third were of Asian descent and almost a ...

It appears that NYC’s Department of Education never went to bid for the “Illustrative Math” curriculum.

A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, has revealed a potentially game-changing ...