A national sample of 55,000 students across dozens of states revealed that even when they were ready for 8th-grade algebra based on their 7th-grade test scores, almost a quarter didn’t enroll in the ...

A student completes an algebra assignment at a Trinity, Fla., high school on Sept. 9, 2025. States and districts have stepped up efforts to enroll more students in Algebra 1 by 8th grade—and address ...

Some 25% of students are prepared for the course in 8th grade, but a quarter of that subset still don’t take it, NWEA research says.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...

San Francisco’s public school district set off a yearslong fight with parents when it decided to prevent students from taking algebra until high school, an attempt to combat racial inequities in math ...

For most people, the word "algebra" conjures classroom memories of Xs and Ys. Weekend Edition's math guy, Keith Devlin, says that's because most schools do a terrible job of teaching it. He talks with ...

The Brown Center released a report today called “The Algebra Imperative.” The report shows that current national and international math assessments do not adequately measure how well American students ...

Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...

Education reformers often bemoan that schools never shed programs that are no longer needed or effective. New school initiatives are consequently layered on top of past practices, which means schools ...

You scrambled up a Rubik's cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. Most folks who have been ...

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. You might remember ...