Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...

Throughout the pandemic, data from testing has shown that students are struggling in math, making less progress than they might have in other years. Teachers, too, have said that routines core to ...

Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The board decided to make ...

If the mention of algebra conjures bad memories of math classes, a Python library called SymPy could change your mind about ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...

What does it say about our public school system when 82% of the high school students in a suburban county fail their Algebra 1 final exams? It implies quite strongly that our public schools are not ...

News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...