With a new law requiring all eighth-grade students to take algebra, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is prepared to make the changes necessary; but the question lingers whether students can do ...

My daughter is here for Christmas Break (and god dammit I miss her a lot) I'm in Los Angeles and she is a Freshman in Texas. We are planning her High School Math curriculum and she is doing rather ...

After taking Maryland's state algebra test this year, Susan Gruenspecht's students at Westland Middle School in Montgomery County wanted to know: Where was the algebra? They were not alone. University ...

Which Algebra for Dummies book is best? In short, algebra is dealing with problems involving variables and unknowns. It can range from something as simple as finding a single exponent — labeled “x” — ...

Arlington Heights School District 25, working in tandem with its local high-school district, wants to create a universal higher-level math class. The school district of 5,100 students is working with ...

Enochs students Kelsey Smallwood, left, and Aushai Devance work together in Christina Rubalcava's Secondary Math I class on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Modesto, Calif. naustin@modbee.com Algebra classes ...