Amboy school’s decision to drop 8th grade algebra doesn’t add up, parents say

Does Amboy Junior High School have a math problem? For a group of parents of seventh grade students, the answer equals yes. The Amboy School Board on Thursday night heard from a group of parents of ...
The Bulletin

Data science v algebra II: Educators debate what math classes high school students need

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...
Education Week

I Thought I Knew When Students Were Engaged in Math Class. I Was Wrong

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...
The Hechinger Report

Inside the new middle school math crisis

Northside Middle School eighth grade math teacher Amber Benson reviews a slope exercise. She and co-teacher Ruby Voss said they try to make students stakeholders in each other’s success. Credit: ...

Maryland District Sheds Remedial High School Math Courses, Sees Students Soar

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

Students being placed into advanced math classes based off standardized test scores, not grades

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...
OPB

For Class of 2025 students, math more often means better grades, better understanding

OPB has been following a group of students in the Class of 2025, after the state of Oregon set a goal that every student starting with that class, should successfully complete high school. The group ...
The Hechinger Report

How one district has diversified its advanced math classes — without the controversy

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...