Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Madinabonu Nosirova/MiC At the risk of resurfacing near-traumatic feelings for any readers, I want ...

For most people, the word "algebra" conjures classroom memories of Xs and Ys. Weekend Edition's math guy, Keith Devlin, says that's because most schools do a terrible job of teaching it. He talks with ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...

Algebra is all about missing values or numbers. If you have solved a missing box problem, you have already solved an algebra equation. Rather than drawing missing boxes or writing the words “missing ...

Sometimes in algebra you will use the initial letter of a word to stand in for that word. For example, the area of a square can be found by multiplying the length by the length.

HAMMONTON - Two empty clotheslines hung across the whiteboard in Kathy DiGiovanni's third-grade class at the Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School. Students quickly clip a row of math equations on the ...

One of the most often repeated courses in U.S. high schools is algebra. Teachers and school leaders understandably worry whether a student who can’t solve basic equations should move on in math, to ...

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