The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...

Keyari Cooper started ninth-grade algebra with a decent attitude. Math wasn't her best subject, but the Pittsburg High School student thought she had a fighting chance to pass the course. Factoring, ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. 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 ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...

College can be thrilling, demanding, and unpredictable. The need for mathematics is one item that always surprises pupils. Many others share your question about the math courses needed in college.

Math is generally a required subject for students in the United States until college. You might elect not to take further math classes because of a lack of aptitude—I’m not a math person. But this is ...