An honest answer for the vast majority of high school math students is, “You probably won’t.” That question and answer highlight the dilemma of secondary math education: connecting real-world social ...

Administrators at Maryland’s Calvert County Public Schools believed the math classes they added to their course catalog years ...

AUSTIN (AP) - The state's new high school graduation requirements began to take shape Thursday, as the Texas Board of Education approved a curriculum that frees many students from having to take ...

CONWAY, Ark. — With its intricate mysteries of quadratics, logarithms and imaginary numbers, Algebra II often provokes a lament from high schoolers. What exactly does this have to do with real life?

PHOENIX (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) — Could Algebra II soon be a high school requirement of the past? A bill making its way through the state’s legislature is seeking to replace Algebra II with what ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students The article was updated March 5 to include the letter from high-tech executives supporting the Algebra ...

In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes replacing algebra II and calculus in the high school and college curriculum with a practical course ...

Of all of the classes offered in high school, Algebra II is the leading predictor of college and work success, according to research that has launched a growing national movement to require it of ...

Students who take Algebra II are much more likely to succeed in college than those who don’t. If more students took that course, more people would successfully graduate from college, so the thinking ...