OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...

Despite being a vocal opponent of reintroducing the class to eighth grade classrooms, candidate Brandee Marckmann appeared to ...

It used to be that algebra and other high-level math courses were limited to high schools, and even then only those students headed to college. But more and more algebra is popping up in middle ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

Eighth-grade math is changing: Instead of emphasizing Algebra I where only some students thrive, many schools are placing all students in the same general class that covers several concepts. Common ...

Does Amboy Junior High School have a math problem? For a group of parents of seventh grade students, the answer equals yes. The Amboy School Board on Thursday night heard from a group of parents of ...

Statistical courses, rather than algebra remediation, do a better job at helping first-year students succeed when they test into developmental education, a new report ...

A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra to satisfy the math requirements they ...

At the tender age of 7, while most kids were learning to ride bikes and play video games, Natalia was pondering early principles of multiplication and algebra two hours per week in her Russian math ...