A San Francisco math teacher was placed on indefinite leave Monday after being accused of using sexist and “fat-shaming” questions ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and ...

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Cal State no longer will require all its general education math courses to have a strict intermediate algebra prerequisite — a policy that has long stymied students trying to transfer from community ...

Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Lipscomb Academy's Pat Wood has won this week's Tennessean Teacher of the Week honoring math teachers. She and eight other ...

Portland Public Schools will continue offering algebra to select eighth-graders but will reset its bar for which students can enter the fast-tracked math class that precedes it. That’s a pivot, given ...

New enVision+ for Grades K-8 and Integrated Algebra 1 and 2 align with the state's Revised Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics PARAMUS, N.J., March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

A popular humorist and avowed mathphobe once declared that in real life, there’s no such thing as algebra. Kathie Wilson knows better. Most of the students in her 8th grade class will be thrust into ...

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 ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...