But many black and Hispanic students, if they take algebra at all, learn it too late to get on the college-prep mathematics track.
In the middle school grades, there are upper and lower level classes in various subjects, and some eighth graders can take algebra.
Determined to get to college, she re-enrolled in high school and spent the next year taking algebra.
Maybe it took algebra to understand it.
We have to take algebra to get a degree to enter a profession to get the money to live.
They have some clues: half of the consortium's eighth-grade students take algebra, compared with only 20 percent nationally.
All eighth-grade students in Japan have taken or are taking algebra.
All students are required to take pre-algebra in the eighth grade, algebra in the ninth and geometry in the tenth.
She wishes she had known that one when she took algebra.
If you are taking algebra, what a great example of why you need to study the subject.