Some thoughts in response to “Researchers Suggest Early Algebra Harmful to Struggling Students” (April 25, 2012): In our extensive work with algebra-readiness programs across the country, we believe ...

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Richard Cohen’s Feb. 21 commentary regarding the elimination of algebra as a graduation requirement really struck a chord. I am a writing major with a grade point average of 3.9 and I have recently ...

Many years ago, I heard a fellow student at East High ask a math teacher, "If I am going to go to college to study English literature, why would anyone care if I know anything about algebra?" The ...

Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

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Algebraic structures, encompassing groups, rings, fields and modules, have long formed the backbone of modern mathematics. Category theory, with its focus on objects and morphisms, provides a unifying ...

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