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

ED Surge

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. For some researchers, California misstepped. It’s a phenomenon researchers are painfully aware of.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

ED Surge

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study.

Math 259
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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2023

ED Surge

Should calculus be taught differently in the 21st century? The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About By Daniel Mollenkamp Photo courtesy of the Harvard University Department of Mathematics. College professors are pushing calculus past its traditional limits to help more students succeed in advanced math.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

ED Surge

One thing we can do to support teachers is make AI accessible in a practical way to educators, [making it as easy as] asking about what's for dinner tonight or how I can plan my vacation. Johnson: If we want to ensure equitable access, I want to really hammer home the point that teachers need training.

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Career Exploration: Mathematics

PCS Edventures

Whether you agree with the theory that mathematics exists for humans to discover or that it is a man-made tool, numeric systems designed to measure the world around us serve as the foundation for scientific and technological advancement. Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. What is Math?

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The Most Underrated Computer Science Career: Quantitative Analysis

STEMe

The efforts of the researchers who use it to improve the stock market cannot go understated, yet their real work remains shrouded in obscurity. Quantitative analysis involves the usage of mathematical models and algorithms to predict the stock price of a company based on its quantitative features. And who really controls all of it?

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Contending with the Unintended Consequences of History: Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education and the Need for Systemic Change in K-12 Education

National Science Foundation

The biases are notably stark if schools are divided out by minority enrollment, as public middle and high schools with more than 50 percent White students have only 2 percent of mathematics teachers and 1 percent of science teachers that are Black ( National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics ). In comparison to the U.S.