Jania Thomas, 17 and a senior at BELIEVE Circle City High School in Indianapolis, was a strong math student all the way through eighth grade. But then COVID struck. Thomas had trouble learning the subject online: She mastered some of the material two years behind schedule. “I always did really well in math — until […]
When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — students must prove mastery of the subject but don’t have to take it in high school — observers of an ongoing education equity debate might have thought it was the last holdout. But a survey by […]
Twenty-one states across the country — Utah, Washington and Georgia among them — are part of a special initiative led by the Charles A. Dana Center in Austin to revamp their mathematics curriculum at the high school level to better reflect students’ interests. Some have modified graduation requirements or retooled stalwart courses — particularly Algebra […]