Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.

Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra, limiting odds they will get advanced courses and higher-paying jobs.

The school board voted 6-1 in February 2024 to reinstate Algebra 1 and launched pilot programs at seven schools for the ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed ...

The California State Board of Education officially adopted Kiddom IM® v.360 California, certified by Illustrative Mathematics (IM), for K-8 math and Algebra 1 in the state's 2025 Mathematics ...

“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...

Many of us groan when we think back to high school algebra class. Imagine taking the course as a seventh-grader - and, no, it's not a new form of punishment. A handful of campuses in the Houston ...

AskMath announced the launch of an AI Math Solver designed to provide detailed problem-solving guidance for a variety of ...

Cal State no longer will require all its general education math courses to have a strict intermediate algebra prerequisite — a policy that has long stymied students trying to transfer from community ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...