When Bill Horkan, a talented teacher I know, thinks about the national debate over how to improve math instruction, he imagines getting students ready for algebra as early as first grade. “Some people ...

Want to help your first-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand place value in one- and two-digit numbers. Understand that in two-digit ...

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The State Board of Education ended a decade-long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California’s Algebra I standards ...