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One state tried algebra for all eighth graders. It hasn’t gone well.
The goal of universal early algebra is to get more students to take calculus in high school. Minnesota has tried it for years ...
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Supporting Success in Algebra:
Transition to Algebra (TTA) is a year-long algebra support curriculum designed to raise the confidence and competence of ninth-grade students who are underprepared in the subject. Responding to an ...
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Minnesota lawmakers hoped 8th grade algebra would get far more students to calculus. It hasn’t
She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade. “I was just really immature ...
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High schools demand clarity about UC’s new math policies
Neither UC nor CSU requires that high school graduates take four years of math, but they highly recommend it. According to UC data, about 80% of UC applicants take at least one course in advanced math ...
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Judge rules high school math policy violates state law
A judge has ruled that the Palo Alto Unified School ... Algebra 2/trigonometry as freshmen. The district’s website also lists certain procedures for students to challenge their high school math ...
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Portland Public Schools maps a 3rd way in the nationally charged debate over middle school algebra
By double-dosing students with math concepts in seventh grade — couched in an approach that stresses projects ... in high school. This class helps me understand more topics.” Taking algebra ...
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UC committee changes admission standard for data science, causing confusion over math framework
She asked for two deletions tying data science to advanced math in the framework chapter on high school. One referred to text for a diagram of pathways that implies that data science could be taken ...