The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...

Here’s a look at what math classes are required in college for most students: College Algebra: A standard course that covers equations, inequalities, graphs, and functions.

Historically speaking, Algebra 1 has been reserved for ninth or tenth grade, and research indicates the majority of students ...

The College Board offers three Advanced Placement classes in math: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics. Successful completion of an AP math class is invaluable to many college-bound ...

The percentage of white sixth graders in honors math has also gone up, to roughly 82%. Some schools utilize test scores to place students into advanced or regular math classes. Getty Images ...

Tuesday's findings suggest that their course offerings were often "advanced" in name only: Fewer than one in five high school graduates who took an "honors" Algebra I class in high school got ...

A new course at Evanston Township High School teaches students how their studies can be connected to the real world.

While five math teachers taught algebra in classes labeled geometry, Chin and the assistant principal for math also ignored their duties to visit the classes to evaluate the instruction.

For their geometry lessons, these high school students stow their backpacks and cellphones in their lockers and don hard hats and goggles.