Some places are moving to universal early algebra. Minnesota has required it for years — with less-than-promising results.

At East Oakland Pride Elementary School in Oakland, California, some fifth graders are asked to arrange colorful plastic ...

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Algebra 1 in eighth grade has been a stretch ... Today it’s about 1.5%, or 13 more students per year in a district with total enrollment of about 6,200. The Minnesota Department of Education ...

Third grade was a long time ago, and many of us have forgotten even the most basic of principles. Fortunately, they’re pretty ...

On Monday, 128 fourth and fifth graders from eight elementary schools across Lawrence County came together to face off in the field of mathematics. The Lawrence County ESC hosted its first ever county ...

Education Week spoke with three award-winning teachers about how they help students persevere in the math classroom.

According to statistics that must be true or I wouldn’t have made them up, 87% of grandfathers couldn’t pass a third-grade ...

Students in eight districts beat the state averages in English, math and science tests. Only Erie students scored below ...

Kids in Canada who say, “Oh, I can’t learn math,” and give up and adopt a math-phobia, often have parents who hated math, a Mamma Bear who is mathematically illiterate and made their kids believe that ...