Faced with dismal success rates, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College was desperate for new ideas to help some of the city’s most underprepared students gain the math skills needed to earn a degree or ...

Algebra is the discipline of pure mathematics that is concerned with the study of the abstract properties of a set, once this is endowed with one or more operations that respect certain rules (axioms) ...

College Algebra is a major barrier to degree completion, but redesigning math experiences to focus on real-world applications can help students develop the skills they need to succeed in their ...

Carol J.V. Fisher has a doctorate in mathematics. She is finishing her ninth year at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Mass., and will move to Lenox (Mass.) Memorial Middle and High School in ...

A summary of findings from a four-year study released Thursday concludes that Algebra I teachers who were trained in and used a program that allowed them to monitor students’ progress on graphing ...

4 Oregon universities created the Center for Algebraic Thinking in 2010 It has a %24740%2C000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education through 2013 The center ...

Linn-Benton Community College is finding ways to teach math in more applied ways, so that students can pick up those skills and get into the workplace. It’s 7:15 on a cold gray Monday morning in May ...

In 1999, Po-Shen Loh took home the silver medal as a member of the US International Math Olympiad. Two decades later, much of his life still revolves around math. The team hasn’t been forgotten — if ...

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Math isn't everyone's best skill — and even those who are good at it are questioning everything after trying this algebra problem. The question originally went viral in Japan, after a study discovered ...