— When Becky O’Bryant attended high school 20 years ago, she needed two general math classes to graduate. “I never took algebra, but it didn’t matter,” the Kalamazoo resident said. “I knew I wasn’t ...

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There's a simple way to tell if your kid is a math geek and likely to have the potential to go on to a lucrative career as a software engineer. It comes around maybe fourth or fifth grade when they ...

In both math and science, the divide between the nation’s highest- and lowest-performing 8th graders continues to widen on national and international tests, and ongoing gaps in access and support to ...

With a new teacher experienced with math teams and a first-time algebra class, the middle school came out of nowhere last month to take third place in a 10-school math competition in Bridgewater. It ...