But Rebecca Bowie, a resident and an eighth-grade math teacher in another district, said Algebra 1 is not the right way to increase the middle school math curriculum, and that the School Committee ...

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

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 ...

A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, has revealed a potentially game-changing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Its solution: Have all students take Algebra 1—the foundational course of high school math—in 9th grade. S y stem leaders had two main goals with the plan: First, to give all students a more ...

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) ...

Boolean algebra is a branch of mathematics that deals with operations on logical values with binary variables. Boolean variables are represented as binary numbers to represent truths: 1 = true and ...

Most people’s experiences with polynomial equations don’t extend much further than high school algebra and the quadratic formula. Still, these numeric puzzles remain a foundational component ...