In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students have begun taking Algebra 1 in eighth or even seventh grade – something ...

As a seventh grade math teacher in Rhode Island, Benjamin Hamill had about 120 of them to review every school night. “I wasn’t always able to get great feedback to the students,” he said.

Houston ISD's elementary and middle schoolers improved in most categories of the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress exams taken at the beginning of the year compared to ...