While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

At the risk of resurfacing near-traumatic feelings for any readers, I want to share the introduction to the first chapter of the undergraduate linear algebra textbook: I remember interrupting my ...

HAMMONTON - Two empty clotheslines hung across the whiteboard in Kathy DiGiovanni's third-grade class at the Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School. Students quickly clip a row of math equations on the ...

THE appearance of this book marks another stage in the improvement which is at last being effected in English treatises on elementary algebra. How different it is from the old-fashioned text-book will ...

As state and school leaders across the country push to have more students take algebra in 8th grade, a new study argues that middle schoolers struggling the most in math are being enrolled in that ...