OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...

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 ...

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

Keyari Cooper started ninth-grade algebra with a decent attitude. Math wasn't her best subject, but the Pittsburg High School student thought she had a fighting chance to pass the course. Factoring, ...

Twenty years ago, most middle-school kids spent most of their day in tracked classes. Even if they had bland names like English A, B, or C, every kid knew if they were in the smart or the dumb class, ...

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

The redesigned sequence separates linear algebra and differential equations into more specialized tracks while eliminating ...