THE LAW OF PHYSICS -- This 22-foot-tall and 16-foot-long trebuchet was recently demonstrated by two Danville School eighth graders ... Danville's Middle School Science teacher, said the project ...

I see that as being the hardest barrier.” But under a 2006 Minnesota law designed to boost the number of students going into math and science careers, all eighth graders were required to take Algebra ...

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But under a 2006 Minnesota law designed to boost the number of students going into math and science careers, all eighth graders were required to take Algebra 1. At the time, legislators argued ...

Adams: My math-and-physics-teacher husband knew that if our daughter didn't take geometry in 9th grade, she'd never get to calculus. He was right.

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already ...