Includes updates and/or revisions. Mastering algebra is widely considered the gateway to higher mathematics and college readiness, but new studies question whether low-performing students benefit from ...

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The way Michelle Truax’s eighth-grade algebra students were enthusiastically blurting out answers, it appeared they were grasping the day’s lesson. But when six students came up with wrong solutions ...

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