Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. §I.1 THIS BOOK IS A HISTORY OF ALGEBRA, written for the curious nonmathematician. It ...

THE history of the theory of algebraic forms gives a striking example of the fact that the germ of a mathematical doctrine may remain dormant for a long period, and then suddenly develop in a most ...