As someone whose college dreams were almost derailed by remedial math courses, I was thrilled to learn that the California State University system will no longer require intermediate algebra as a ...

Let’s say you’re entering your senior year of high school. Your school district, or your state, is requiring you to take a fourth year of math. But the only options offered, in addition to the courses ...

After months of deliberation California State University officials say they’re sending an executive order to their campuses next month to eliminate a math requirement for entering students who are not ...

Students looking for more advanced mathematics than school provides will turn elsewhere to find it. While mathematicians and parents are bemoaning the newly adopted California Mathematics Framework, ...

Corrected: In a previous version of this story, the group that is developing a linear algebra and geometry course of study was misidentified. The group is the Education Development Center. When ...

A Stanford math professor issued a stark warning Thursday on California's new math curriculum, arguing the push for "equity" could backfire academically as students continue to reel from post-pandemic ...

A dump truck with a red painted sign reading “Dump Swun now, kids deserve better” sat in the parking lot outside the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board meeting Tuesday evening as parents, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Alternate remedial math sequences that emphasize statistics and quantitative reasoning instead of ...

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 ...

Mary E. Pilgrim receives funding from National Science Foundation. Thomas Dick receives funding from National Science Foundation. In 1939, the fictional professor J. Abner Pediwell published a curious ...