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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

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Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.

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Gauthmath- A Good Online Math Homework Helper for Students

Educators Technology

Gauthmath is a math homework helper app that provides step-by-step solutions to all types of math problems including word problems and geometry. The app also offers access to online math tutors to help learners with their math problems in algebra, graphing, calculus, and many more.

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

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That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

Cool Cat Teacher

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. He gave me a math test that I can just do it in my own language. Your district.