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 ...

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 ...