Only 26% of 8th graders tested proficient in math in 2024. Research shows that 7th grade is the tipping point at which students either stay on track for STEM or fall permanently behind. Here's what ...

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Mastering algebra is widely considered the gateway to higher mathematics and college readiness, but new studies question whether low-performing students benefit from ...

A growing number of advanced sixth-graders on Long Island and elsewhere could be taking algebra courses typically taken by ninth-graders, under new rules approved Tuesday by the state's Board of ...

We have yet to see any rebound in middle school math on the nation’s report card, where scores declined by 8 points from 2019 to 2022 and remained at that low point when kids last took NAEP in 2024.

Cambridge eighth-graders will have the option to take Algebra 1 starting in the 2025-26 school year, and the course could become required for all students the next school year. The Cambridge School ...

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 ...