The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

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 ...

Arizona high school students are entering college unprepared for advanced math, prompting a review of Algebra II standards. A task force recommends cutting down on the number of Algebra II topics to ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why the national reaction was so strong to Andrew Hacker’s op-ed in last Sunday’s NY Times, “Is Algebra Necessary? ” After engaging with various blog posts and ...

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 ...

The article was updated March 5 to include the letter from high-tech executives supporting the Algebra II requirement. It also clarifies that AP Statistics is for students who have completed Algebra ...

As Texas reconsiders whether all students should take algebra II to earn a high school diploma, it is bucking a national trend that it helped launch a decade ago toward more stringent math curriculum.