At Perry Street Prep, which goes from prekindergarten to eighth grade, student performance ... to its attendance problem Derrick Gooding, who teaches middle school math at Friendship Public ...

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...

Students who take Algebra 1 in eighth grade and do well ... if they seem to struggle with math anxiety or spend an excessive amount of time doing practice problems before feeling comfortable ...

This experiment did not include more advanced students who had already taken algebra in eighth grade ... problems were selected to supplement the district’s curriculum, which emphasized procedural ...