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 ...

The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan ...

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

Algebra uses letters and symbols in the place of numbers and can be used to simplify expressions. Algebraic notation close algebraic notationA series or system of written symbols used to represent ...

THIS is one of the Clarendon Press Series, hence we are saved all necessity of remarking upon the get-up of the volume. We had hardly expected that Mr. Hensley could have imparted any freshness to his ...