For decades, generations of Americans took the same basic high school math track. Algebra. Geometry. Algebra 2. Now, school districts across the country are overhauling their approach, combining ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - Teachers from as far away as the Arctic Circle are traveling to Colorado to learn a new way of teaching math. They are part of a summer school unlike any other. A school where ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Amid rows of chairs ...

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...

This fall 9th-grade students in virtually all California high schools are taking math classes aligned with the Common Core standards. But for many of them there is an additional twist: they are ...

High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some students — often low-income, African-American or Latino — in less challenging classes that leave ...

When an innovative idea proves successful in the classroom, it’s worth sharing. That’s the concept behind IMPACT II, a national program that promotes teacher networking. If a creative high school math ...

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For years Atlantic City High School math teacher Robert Cacioppo taught the traditional lesson on compound interest by using the the “Rule of 72,” which says money invested for 12 years at 6 percent ...

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 ...

Think twice before skipping your geometry homework. The further you get in high-school math, the better you're likely to fare in the labor market. Students who complete higher levels of math in high ...