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A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly. By Soumya Karlamangla How to make algebra ...
You guys may have noticed that recently, I have been showing you a lot of algebraic equations. I really don't like to use, or generate, algebraic equations. Sometimes they're much messier than just ...
As schools across Florida grapple with how to use artificial intelligence, Florida Virtual School says it’s finding success.
All students, regardless of their prior mathematical skills, benefit from taking algebra, a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison concludes. That finding, published in the fall ...
The Feb. 3 opinion piece, "Who Needs Remediation?," contains this sentence: "We now recognize that most people do not need to be fluent in advanced algebra in order to function well in our society.” ...
If you're not a numbers person, sometimes even if you are, high school math, can be mind-numbing. "These are all quadratic equations and quadratic equations, they don't really make sense to anyone," ...