Sabrin Khalif has had a busy month. She just graduated simultaneously with an Associate's of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a ...

Pasco wants eighth graders ready for algebra, seniors set for calculus A third grade students works with visual aids while learning fractions at New River Elementary school in Wesley Chapel.

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.

A student at Oak Ridge High School in Orange County works on Algebra 1 problems on May 12, 2011. Florida students for decades had to pass a state math test to earn high school diplomas.

Officials from Cambridge Public Schools updated the School Committee on the status of two decades-long projects — Algebra 1 in eighth grade and universal preschool — in a Tuesday meeting.

As of 2023, only about 24% of American eighth graders were enrolled in algebra 1, though that doesn’t necessarily mean they all passed. What this all shows is that at least 75% of American public ...

Elementary algebra is expressed using basic mathematical functions, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Boolean algebra deals with conjunction, disjunction, and negation.

Then San Francisco Unified School District officials reversed course, after a decade’s worth of no algebra in middle school led to little improvement in equity, and Portland, too, pivoted.

Lyela Sayarath was in her second period Algebra 1 class in Winder, Georgia, Wednesday morning when the quiet boy sitting next to her got up and left the class, the door closing and automatically ...

“Eighth-grade algebra is the gateway to taking advanced math in high school. Taking college-level math courses in high school is predictive of higher rates of postsecondary success,” said Gabe ...

The School Committee was on the verge of forcing the issue last August when the administration presented its plan: Algebra 1, for all eighth-grade students, by 2025.

Now the school district says it will begin offering algebra in eighth grade in August. “Schools really don’t know what to do,” Jon R. Star, an educational psychologist at Harvard, told Troy.