Webinar Recording: Unlocking Algebra
May 15, 2025
On Tuesday, May 13, TNTP and New Classrooms released the report: Unlocking Algebra – What the Data Tells Us About Helping Students Catch Up. On the same day Adam Meier, Partner, Research Center of Excellence, TNTP, and Joel Rose, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, New Classrooms, presented the findings, recorded in the webinar below.
Looking at the billions of dollars spent on new curricula and instructional materials—NAEP scores still showing that barely one in four 8th graders are proficient in math—TNTP was drawn to the question: how can we help more students master Algebra I, especially when they begin behind?
They leveraged years of experience and data from New Classrooms’ Teach to One Roadmaps online learning platform—allowing them to pinpoint, at a granular level, which skills students had mastered and which they had yet to acquire—and drew the following conclusions:
1. Proficiency improves when students learn new Algebra-related concepts and skills, including those from prior grades.
2. Learning new Algebra-related concepts and skills requires applying key predecessors.
3. Tier 2 intervention is most effective when students build on what they know.
Watch the complete webinar. Check out the presentation deck here.
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