Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
The Bulletin

Data science v algebra II: Educators debate what math classes high school students need

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...
Observer Local News

Palm Coast sixth grader passes high-school level algebra and geometry

Since then, Lev has gone on to achieve a perfect score in the fifth grade math assessment exam, and he has passed the high ...
Oregonian

Portland Public Schools maps a 3rd way in the nationally charged debate over middle school algebra

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 Boston Globe

As district leaders hesitate, Cambridge School Committee pushes on middle school algebra

A year after seemingly resolving the long-standing controversy over when to offer Algebra 1, Cambridge Public Schools leaders are once again at loggerheads over the class, a critical prerequisite for ...
Education Week

Having Math Class in the Morning Could Lead to Better Student Performance

This post originally appeared on the Time and Learning blog. A new research study has found that students perform better in math classes held in the morning than those held in the afternoon. The ...
The Hechinger Report

Math ends the education careers of thousands of community college students. A few schools are trying something new

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...