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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Meanwhile, the calculus instruction has to be slowed down enough that it’s not as effective for math people as it could be. “I

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Why Do Underrepresented Students Struggle to Get the Math They Need for College?

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Students who don’t know that colleges prioritize calculus find themselves at a disadvantage in college admissions, according to “ Integral Voices: Examining Math Experiences of Underrepresented Students ,” a recent report from Just Equations, a California-based policy institute focused on making math more equitable.

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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

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They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility 00;00;00;04 – 00;00;07;19 John Davis This is the Ten Minute Teacher Podcast with your host Vicki Davis. Extended Episode number 780 – Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility. And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus. Your district.

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Gauthmath- A Good Online Math Homework Helper for Students

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The app also offers access to online math tutors to help learners with their math problems in algebra, graphing, calculus, and many more. Gauthmath covers various math topics including: math word problems, algebra, function, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, matrix, logic, and more.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

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Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. For example, lots of principals say that their school offers algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus.

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In College Math, Faculty Is Key. But Will This Insight Actually Help Students?

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A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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