While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

Algebra is a branch of mathematics dealing with symbols and the rules for manipulating those symbols. In elementary algebra, those symbols (today written as Latin and Greek letters) represent ...

THE work under review is also Part II. of “A Course of Elementary Mathematics.” Vol. I. comprises those portions of elementary algebra usually to be found in modern text-books up to the chapter on ...

The Feb. 3 opinion piece, "Who Needs Remediation?," contains this sentence: "We now recognize that most people do not need to be fluent in advanced algebra in order to function well in our society.” ...

THE appearance of this book marks another stage in the improvement which is at last being effected in English treatises on elementary algebra. How different it is from the old-fashioned text-book will ...

The American Economic Review is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in the economics profession and is ...

Educational software developer Plato Learning recently announced the release of Academic Systems Algebra, a three-course math program designed for entry-level college students. Courses include ...