OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...

High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most do not. Algebra I is the single most failed course in American high schools.

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

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For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha—a website that solves algebraic problems online—has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and with ...

If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ask parent Janina Matuszeski what she has valued most about her twins’ experience in the Cambridge Public Schools to this point, and she is quick to cite the diversity and teacher ...

For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, ...

Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads. It is also the single most failed course in ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...