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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 ...

Not all eighth graders are ready for the abstract concepts — like variables, linear functions, slope — that come with Algebra I, some experts and teachers say. Those more complex ideas also ...