Now a look at how required math classes may factor into the academic success or failure of high school and college students. Hari Sreenivasan has the story as part of our weekly education series, ...

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 ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

Michigan State University has revised its general-education math requirement so that algebra is no longer required of all students. The revision reflects an increasing view on college campuses that ...

A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

Explore Boolean algebra's role in finance and how it aids in binomial options pricing models to enhance decision-making for ...