From suburbs in the Northeast to major cities on the West Coast, a surprising subject is prompting ballot measures, lawsuits and bitter fights among parents: algebra. Students have been required for ...

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 ...

San Francisco middle school students will be able to take Algebra 1 again for the first time since the Obama years — albeit ...

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 ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

DULUTH — How quickly can you figure out equations? Do you still remember the order of operations? What about word problems? If you're a member of a Math Masters team in the Northland, the answer to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. NEW YORK — I ...

Siblings Selena and Adam Ge walked into Olney Hall ready to take on the MATHCOUNTS state championship. “I wasn’t really nervous,” says Selena Ge, a seventh-grade student from Jonas Clarke Middle ...