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Thrown into the deep end of algebra
In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...
The pressure to reach Calculus by a student’s senior year of high school often translates into pressure to take Algebra I, the first course in a five-course sequence, by eighth grade. Algebra I (or ...
It was risky. Students sometimes end up with lower math scores when they’re pushed to do work that is too advanced for them; that’s why California ended an eighth grade “algebra for all” initiative a ...
The number of Greenwich High juniors who received a mastery score on the math portion of the SAT dropped by 2.7 percent from ...
Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...
where teachers have been using Illustrative Math for seven years, eighth-grade teacher Emma Comstock Reid handed the group a worksheet with five pairs of similar shapes. For each, the task was to ...
Chicago Public Schools third- through eighth-grade state test scores increased in 2024, with reading finally surpassing 2019 ...
Some schools in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System have been recognized as Math Leaders by the Georgia ...
To make up for the vacancies, Bessie Rhodes’ Principal Charlise Berkel is teaching seventh and eighth grade Math and Science, Assistant Principal Sarah Antrim-Graf is teaching seventh and eighth grade ...
BROOKLINE — It was a gray morning in July, and most of their peers were spending the summer sleeping late and hanging out with friends. But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class ...
In math, where Dennis-Yarmouth had a percentage of 10 th grade ... “We really need to be looking back to the building blocks ...