A growing number of advanced sixth-graders on Long Island and elsewhere could be taking algebra courses typically taken by ninth-graders, under new rules approved Tuesday by the state's Board of ...

Jesse Elicker, math clinician at Good Hope Middle School, began his Tuesday morning pre-algebra class with a game of “Guess the Function.” A series of numbers was displayed on the Smart Board behind ...

When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when ...

“The most important thing I learned in this project is to work well with your partners and how all the businesses in the world use math to be successful in business,” said sixth-grader Isaac Gardner.

El Paso Independent School District middle schoolers will be automatically enrolled in an advanced math class starting in August, with the plan of getting nearly all eighth graders enrolled in Algebra ...