Middle school math teachers are all too familiar with a question—usually uttered with a groan—that students ask when they make an unsettling shift into more complex content: “When am I ever going to ...
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 ...
Newly released national test scores show student achievement in math rising at the elementary school level—but not among middle school students, whose achievement has stagnated after years of steady ...
ITHACA, N.Y. — On a frigid Thursday in February, math teacher Marietta Gibb was warming up her sixth-graders at DeWitt Middle School with some algebraic expressions. She showed the students a video to ...