In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

The purpose of all of the developmental mathematics courses is to support student success academically and beyond by advancing critical thinking and reasoning skills. Specifically in Algebra I, as a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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An inequality can be represented graphically as a region on one side of a line. Key fact Inequalities that use < or > symbols are plotted with a dashed line to show that the line is not included in ...