A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

Eighth-grade math is changing: Instead of emphasizing Algebra I where only some students thrive, many schools are placing all students in the same general class that covers several concepts. Common ...

Algebra can be used to show the properties of expressions and demonstrate when different expressions are equivalent. Rules can be used that apply to sets of numbers, such as odd numbers and even ...

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y. For those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...

In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes replacing algebra II and calculus in the high school and college curriculum with a practical course ...

This video explores the history of Co-ordinates, as the characters meet Rene Descartes, who explains his system of Cartesian co-ordinates.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A new legislative proposal is set to overhaul public high school graduation requirements in Florida by eliminating the necessity for students to pass Algebra and ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...