The benefit of having everybody exposed to algebra in eighth grade is that it opens that door to more advanced math classes,” ...

Steve Kelley, the bill's co-author. "To do that, we needed to have them take Algebra I in eighth grade." Many math experts warned against the move. "This whole idea is a very naive belief that if ...

Math instruction has been a contentious ... is the district’s expectation that all students be at least in algebra by eighth grade. “Some students will find themselves in seventh grade algebra ...

Algebra and geometry might be a challenge for some of us, but four local seventh and eighth graders crushed it today in a ...

“Today I just finished the 8th grade entire unit,” said Jack Killian. Shannon Beighley said that 13 of her students are now moving on to Algebra I, which is regarded as a high school math cours ...