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Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

ED Surge

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. states, Lindsey Henderson, a secondary mathematics specialist for the Utah State Board of Education, credited the state’s scores in part to the state’s integrated secondary math curriculum mandate.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. 4 Simple Examples with Mathematical Interpretations. 15 Axiom Systems of Present-Day Mathematics. 21 What Can Human Mathematics Be Like? Graphical Key.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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It also appears multiple times for most grade levels in the Math Standards, including the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Why is this skill so important? Clearly, this is a seminal skill.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

However, upon closer inspection, the university admissions team can see that the second candidate worked part-time after school to financially support themself, so had less time to dedicate to their studies, and they lived in a poorer neighbourhood and attended a lower-achieving school.

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What Preservice Teachers and Teacher Educators Can Learn from Trajectories

National Science Foundation

Just as students who achieve in STEM fields are lauded for their “brilliance,” STEM teachers are often revered for teaching a subject area that many find to be unapproachable. We looked deeply at the role that race, and more specifically racism, plays in the teaching, retention, and recruitment experiences of Black mathematics teachers.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. What Game Delivers.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

ED Surge

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. He’s outlined the strategies in his book, “ Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics. ” So how do you achieve change in any setting if that's the case?

Research 350