When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already ...

Adams: My math-and-physics-teacher husband knew that if our daughter didn't take geometry in 9th grade, she'd never get to calculus. He was right.

Officials from Cambridge Public Schools updated the School Committee on the status of two decades-long projects — Algebra 1 in eighth grade and universal preschool — in a Tuesday meeting.

Daniel Seykora recognizes that math isn’t always the best subject for students. But with teaching close to a hundred kids a ...

Middle school students showed off their math skills during the “Math Counts” competition at South Sioux City Middle School.

The statewide poll shows the worry is heighted among parents with students in Grades 5-8 and among parents of multilingual ...

Those more complex ideas also require extended concentration, which is difficult for many middle schoolers. “Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones,” said Zach Loy, another math ...

The poll, conducted late last year, surveyed roughly 1,500 Massachusetts parents with children in kindergarten through 12th ...

“Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones,” said Zach Loy, another math teacher at the high school, an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. “Are they capable of sitting down and ...

About half of parents surveyed say their child is doing well in math, but that drops among lower-income families.

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