A Massachusetts district is experimenting with universal eighth-grade algebra, raising fresh questions about access, ...

At the end of the program's first year, some 60 percent of students will have to repeat the subject in high school. But ...

In education, few issues have stirred more debate in recent years than when middle and high schoolers should take algebra.

Master polynomial long division when the leading coefficient isn't one. This tutorial breaks down the exact steps to divide ...

In this video, we provide essential "math help" by visually demonstrating "factoring out the greatest common factor" from various algebraic expressions. This "math tutorial" works through multiple ...

San Francisco eighth graders will have the option to take Algebra 1 next year after it was pulled from the school district’s middle school curriculum in 2014, and a yearslong campaign sought to ...

More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...

Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra classes, effectively shutting these students off from advanced courses and higher-paying jobs, according to research released ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

For districts aiming to increase the number of students taking Algebra 1 before high school, a key policy lever could be pulled earlier—when students are just entering middle school. When the Dallas ...

A University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney mathematician has revealed the first successful solution of an ‘impossible’ equation once considered unsolvable. Described as algebra’s oldest problem, ...

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 ...