SFUSD to roll out new algebra plan amid intense pushback from parents, politicians

San Francisco school officials have released a long-awaited plan that allows proficient eighth-graders to skip ahead to ...
Click2Houston

HISD wants every student to take Algebra by 8th grade: Here’s the district’s plan

Houston ISD will place all sixth and seventh graders on an accelerated math pathway starting this fall, aiming for every ...
KALW

San Francisco’s plan to bring Algebra back to eighth grade

After a two-year pilot, the San Francisco Unified School District seems to have come up with a plan for bringing Algebra 1 back to eighth grade.
KTVU

8th graders in San Francisco could all be taking algebra following low math scores

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's school board could vote Tuesday night on bringing back algebra for students in 8th grade after the district eliminated the course from its middle schools a decade ago.
Oregonian

Portland Public Schools maps a 3rd way in the nationally charged debate over middle school algebra

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...
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Math Riddles with Answers: 5 Challenging Puzzles for Class 8 Algebraic Expressions

Math Riddles for Class 8: Check out Algebraic Expressions Class 8 Puzzles for Preparing Important Topics for Class 8 Mathematics. Learn the tricks and solutions for algebraic problems. Math Riddles: ...
MinnPost

Minnesota lawmakers hoped 8th grade algebra would get far more students to calculus. It hasn’t

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic ...