Only about 53% of local public school students are considered proficient in math, according to last school year’s state test scores.

Students at Vassal Lane Upper School worked on a math assignment. It is unclear whether Cambridge will offer Algebra 1 in middle school by 2025. Katye Martens Brier/For The Washington Post ...

Lessons focus on conceptual understandings In the current study, 41 schools were assigned to either implement Project LEAP lessons in K-2 or continue with their usual math instruction.

Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its ...

NYC Algebra teachers are dreading the next school year — when nearly all of them will have to use a commercial math curriculum being blasted as “a complete disaster.” Last year, teachers at ...

But students who had most of the math knowledge from previous grades, including the predecessor skills, did the best. They had a 58% success rate on new Algebra 1 content.

Math 1100 Algebra I Syllabus Purpose of Math 1100 The purpose of all of the developmental mathematics courses is to support student success academically and beyond by advancing critical thinking and ...

That means the most advanced students at many middle schools in poor communities don’t have the opportunity to learn algebra, and many students at high-poverty schools aren’t receiving the kind of ...

Math games can be an effective way to learn. A study in 2010 found that the action-packed video game Dimension M beat traditional lessons in teaching linear algebra to seventh- and eighth-graders.

U.S. schools teach math differently than other countries, which has led to low scores. These schools steal teaching tricks from around the world.