In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes replacing algebra II and calculus in the high school and college curriculum with a practical course ...

Regarding "Coping with Algebra" (Page B8, Wednesday), the letter writer stated that he knows of no vocabulary word for people who do not have a sufficiently well-developed mental module to do math.

Think about the so-called "story problems" you studied in algebra and other math classes. How many of them dealt with, say, two trains which, no matter how far they traveled, could never catch your ...