The Algebra Project
The Algebra Project is a rare success story in the troubled field of math education. More kids drop out of US high schools because they fail introductory algebra than for any other academic reason. Of the 48,000 ninth-graders who took beginning algebra in the Los Angeles Unified School District in the autumn of 2004, 44% [...]
The Algebra Project is a rare success story in the troubled field of math education. More kids drop out of US high schools because they fail introductory algebra than for any other academic reason. Of the 48,000 ninth-graders who took beginning algebra in the Los Angeles Unified School District in the autumn of 2004, 44% failed—nearly twice the failure rate of English in a district that’s 43% non-native English speaking. (An additional 17% finished with Ds.) The vast majority of these students will never graduate. They will fail algebra again and again, and then they will throw up their hands in defeat, convinced that they’ll never be able to solve for x.
From the September 2006 issue of Seed
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