Want to help your ninth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by ...

The purpose of all of the developmental mathematics courses is to support student success academically and beyond by advancing critical thinking and reasoning skills. Specifically in Algebra I, as a ...

Portland Public Schools will continue offering algebra to select eighth-graders but will reset its bar for which students can enter the fast-tracked math class that precedes it. That’s a pivot, given ...

A popular humorist and avowed mathphobe once declared that in real life, there’s no such thing as algebra. Kathie Wilson knows better. Most of the students in her 8th grade class will be thrust into ...

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 ...

Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...