Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Grown Here at Home: Hydroponics garden continues to keep students in Rocky Mount excited about math

In Jennifer Hatch’s seventh-grade math class at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Rocky Mount, not every lesson comes from a ...
Oregonian

Portland Public Schools maps a 3rd way in the nationally charged debate over middle school algebra

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 ...
Edutopia

Five Math Procedures To Help Students Learn From Their Mistakes

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Lake Central decides to drop 7th-grade algebra. Some students are opting out of later advanced courses; other districts tailor classes to individuals.

ST. JOHN — After five years of offering an algebra class for high-ability seventh-grade students instead of the regular advanced math course, Lake Central schools has decided to drop it in the face of ...
The Hechinger Report

These school districts are bucking the national math slump

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...
wtvr

Majority of Richmond 7th graders took 8th grade math SOL. 18% passed.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The vast majority of RPS seventh-graders took the eighth-grade math Standards of Learning (SOL) test during the 2021-2022 school year, as opposed to the seventh-grade math SOL. And of ...