A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly.

AI is accelerating a conversation around how math instruction should put more emphasis on using numbers to solve real-world problems.

Targeted support is especially urgent in Algebra 1, experts say; the class is a gatekeeper to higher level mathematics.

A high-quality curriculum creates the foundation for success in math. But properly implementing an Algebra I curriculum is at least as important as the curriculum itself.

You might be most familiar with x from math class. Many algebra problems use x as a variable, to stand in for an unknown quantity. But why is x the letter chosen for this role?