Within the last few years, it has become increasingly popular for educators, social scientists, and even politicians to question the necessity of an education in mathematics. In his popular 2016 book, ...

BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Figure Math is aiming to increase math test scores by helping students understand algebra and by helping teachers blend technology and learning to bring ...

Northbrook High School students Jackie De Los Reyes and Elsy Molina sat at a lab table tying knots in a piece of string, weighing candies and dropping marbles into a beaker of water. What seems like ...

Computer scientist Zoran Popović is teaching algebra to children with an adaptive— and addictive—new videogame. Mike Clinard. GlueKit You have an armadillo, a black-and-white trout, and a rainbow ...

LOS ANGELES — Every year, as many high school seniors struggle with basic algebra, people complain, “Who needs it? How many students will ever use it?” Well, I use it every day. I’m using it now, even ...

Johnny Patrello was a greaser. I was a dork. And yet, despite our rigidly stratified school culture, we came together in the spring of 1968 at Walt Whitman Junior High School, where I tutored Johnny ...

Seventh grade students learning algebra equations in teacher Terry Daniels’ class at Waterford Junior High School in Waterford, CA on Jan. 22, 2020. ChrisAnna Mink cmink@modbee.com The California ...

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," ...

A Sioux Falls high school has its own Shark Tank. Well, close enough anyway. Lindsey Keiper's class of freshman at New Technology High School are learning algebra in a new way. Would you be interested ...

I READ with interest the April 17 “My Word” column. It seems that the writer does not approve of the recent requirement that high-school graduates should learn something about algebra to graduate from ...