New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new ...

"Only 11% of the jobs in the United States require any type of algebra, and we're making every single kid in Minnesota take algebra or algebra II," Farnsworth said. "Quite frankly, we tried making ...

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 ...

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Students in the lowest level who were part of the experiment skipped remedial math and were able to learn algebra with the majority of ninth graders. The ...

“With this plan, Algebra 1 would not fully be in eighth grade ... described just such a scenario at the June 11 meeting, noting he was privileged to take a calculus class through a private ...