Historically speaking, Algebra 1 has been reserved for ninth or tenth grade, and research indicates the majority of students ...

Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis ...

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Scott Steketee, Daniel Scher, Connecting Functions in Geometry and Algebra, The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 109, No. 6 (February 2016), pp. 448-455 ...

Math Geek Mom: Moving Up There is a function in math called the “Greatest Integer Function,” which assigns a value to every number that is the largest integer less than or equal to that number. For ...

The questions are so fraught because algebra functions as a crucial crossroads in the education system. Students who fail it are far less likely to graduate.