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 ...

Unlike other elementary and middle school mathematics courses, algebra begins to introduce abstract relationships and ideas. While textbooks attempt to give students real-world illustrations of these ...

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 ...

As leaders of science and engineering departments at a public university, we have front row seats to the outcomes of America’s approach to kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) math education. We see ...

News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. If you’re an eighth grader who wants to take algebra, can you even take the class? The answer to ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...