While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Some school districts are adjusting the sequence in which they offer math courses to their highest achievers because of changes under the new Common Core State Standards for middle school and high ...

Last year, my seventh-grade class created at-scale drawings of cost-efficient cabins for an outdoor education camp. Using three-dimensional figures and proportional reasoning, my students designed and ...

Troy Superintendent Richard Machesky says that, after initial parent pushback, opposition to detracking of math classes in schools like Boulan Park, pictured here, has gone silent. Credit: Amanda J.

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

The Manhasset School District provided recommendations for changes to its advanced math and science programs, which the district said would bolster student success and mitigate current issues. “A ...

When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when ...