Algebra is the discipline of pure mathematics that is concerned with the study of the abstract properties of a set, once this is endowed with one or more operations that respect certain rules (axioms) ...

My daughter is here for Christmas Break (and god dammit I miss her a lot) I'm in Los Angeles and she is a Freshman in Texas. We are planning her High School Math curriculum and she is doing rather ...

If a student’s transcript shows the successful completion of Algebra 2, what does that really mean? Although a lot more students today are completing the course, a new analysis suggests that line on ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

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Cal State no longer will require all its general education math courses to have a strict intermediate algebra prerequisite — a policy that has long stymied students trying to transfer from community ...