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

Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads. It is also the single most failed course in ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vast majority of students won’t take algebra until middle or high school. But teachers can start laying the groundwork for this pivotal class a lot sooner, some researchers say—and instilling ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Nicholson Baker hates math.* The novelist and nonfiction writer ...

When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative and unproved ideas can end up as official ...

August brings the usual dread of summer’s end and the imminent return to school, now magnified by the uncertainty of a COVID future and painful memories of the COVID past. As if the increased levels ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Imagine a world in which it is possible for an elite group of hackers to install a “backdoor” not on a personal computer but on the entire U.S. economy. Imagine that they can use it to cryptically ...