Northside Middle School eighth grade math teacher Amber Benson reviews a slope exercise. She and co-teacher Ruby Voss said they try to make students stakeholders in each other’s success. Credit: ...

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in ...

The average eighth grader is now three years below grade level in math. How can they do algebra if they’re struggling to divide fractions? Credit: Jill Brady/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

Tracking, or grouping students according to their perceived ability, is a common feature in high school math. But a new study finds that it’s widespread as early as elementary and middle school, ...

Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

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 ...

Martin Udengaard wants more for his son, and he doesn’t think Cambridge schools can deliver. Cambridge Public Schools no longer offers advanced math in middle school, something that could hinder his ...

Middle school math class probably isn’t on most people’s lists of favorite school memories. But that could be changing in one central Alabama school district thanks to the efforts of a corps of math ...

correctionA previous version of this article included a photo caption that incorrectly said a student in an eighth-grade math class was working on a slope equation. The student was ordering real ...