While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

A couple of weeks ago Herald columnist James McCusker wrote an article called ““Are we teaching algebra to the wrong students?” As a former teacher, I would answer McCusker with my sincere belief that ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

In recent years, education activists have adopted the argument that white supremacism and the misuse of mathematics explain racial inequality in educational attainment. “On many levels, mathematics ...

Now a look at how required math classes may factor into the academic success or failure of high school and college students. Hari Sreenivasan has the story as part of our weekly education series, ...

The new state policy of requiring algebra in the eighth grade will set up unprepared students for failure while holding back others with solid math skills, a new report has concluded. These ...

A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra to satisfy the math requirements they ...