Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

This is not so different from what high school students need as they chart a course to graduation; they should have a goal or ...

Professor Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra for 61 years. His free online lectures, part of MIT OpenCourseWare, reached ...

Portland Public Schools will continue offering algebra to select eighth-graders but will reset its bar for which students can enter the fast-tracked math class that precedes it. That’s a pivot, given ...

One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...

At the state’s prodding, the proportion of students taking Algebra in eighth grade increased 60 percent over the past decade – a significant achievement. But there has not been a parallel success in ...

It’s time for algebra to consistently be seen and experienced as more than a meandering stream of abstract variables and procedures Algebra can be breathtaking. Yet most people don’t encounter it this ...

In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes replacing algebra II and calculus in the high school and college curriculum with a practical course ...