Neither UC nor CSU requires that high school graduates take four years of math, but they highly recommend it. According to UC data, about 80% of UC applicants take at least one course in advanced math ...

As a math teacher, it seems to me that what is covered in Algebra 2 is pointless, to most nonSTEM/related field students. The Algebra 2 requirement, in fields where it is not relevant results in a ...

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 ...

Lastly, the change must be approved by the HBUHSD Math Facilitator and the school’s principal before the final approval by HBUHSD. According to Nguyen, the final step to revise the content of the ...

There’s a traditional course sequence in U.S. high school math. Students progress from Algebra 1 in 9th grade, to geometry in 10th grade, then Algebra 2 in 11th grade.

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.

After seven years of teaching, David Bedard, the only math teacher at Franklin High School, is leaving. In addition to ...

But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need. In a survey, humanities, arts and social science professors say they really want their students ...

The National Center for Education Statistics, for example, found in 2019 that 43% of high school students graduated without taking math courses beyond Algebra II, the report says.

According to a 2024 study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 71% of Ohio eighth graders were not proficient in math in 2022, up from 62% in 2019.

The school’s principal, Ben Honoroff, said he expected that some students would have to retake the class in high school. But after starting a small algebra pilot program a few years ago, he came ...

High school students currently need to pass NC Math 1, NC Math 2 and NC Math 3 and a fourth math course aligned with their post-secondary plans to get a diploma.