Grade Algebra Made Easy announced its new interactive learning tools and visual study methods to help high school students ...

A new algebra course guide has been launched, addressing the 40-50% failure rate among 9th graders, with interactive tools that demonstrate 13.3% higher mastery scores. The self-paced online resource ...

The study takes a provocative look at a subject many people view as a matter of racial equality. Once unavailable to many minority and poor children, algebra is becoming widely accepted as a must ...

They tend to improve slightly, but not as much might be hoped. This study confirms an earlier 2012 California study that struggling students aren’t mastering algebra by repeating it.

Project LEAP aims to smooth that transition, preparing students to speak “the language of algebra,” said Angela Gardiner, a senior researcher at TERC and a co-principal investigator on the study.

The study is the first of its kind to focus solely on the impact of placing the lowest-performing students in eighth-grade algebra. Learning about all those x’s, y’s and quadratic equations too early ...

Critics noted that the NCES study did not include data on 8th grade Algebra 1 and Geometry courses, even though one in five 2005 high school graduates had taken Algebra 1 in middle school.

At the state’s prodding, the proportion of students taking Algebra in eighth grade increased 60 percent over the past decade – a significant achievement. But there has not been a parallel success in ...