According to a 2013 report from the Brookings Institution, the number of students taking Algebra 1 or a more advanced math course (such as geometry) in eighth grade nearly tripled between 1990 and ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school ...

It appears that NYC’s Department of Education never went to bid for the “Illustrative Math” curriculum.

And without a college preparatory track of advanced math classes to take after algebra, the benefits of taking Algebra 1 in eighth grade are unlikely to accrue. It’s also not economically practical ...

Algebra is the discipline of pure mathematics that is concerned with the study of the abstract properties of a set, once this is endowed with one or more operations that respect certain rules (axioms) ...