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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

ED Surge

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. He was switched over to the more advanced class, which taught algebra II and geometry. The Complicated Reality of Tracking Getting rid of tracking is not the answer, says Julia Kaufman, a senior policy researcher at RAND.

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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? But how does this abstract discipline translate into tangible career paths?

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

ED Surge

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. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

ED Surge

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Or even newer math ?) isn’t working.

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Don’t Give Up on Algebra: Let’s Shift the Focus to Instruction

National Science Foundation

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Domina et al., 2015; Dougherty et al.,

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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. These are the students who end up hitting a wall when math courses move from easier algebra to more advanced concepts in, say, calculus, he argues. “At

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

Even after everything our civilization has achieved, we’re just at the very, very beginning of exploring rulial space. The big achievements of AI in recent times have been about making systems that are closely aligned with us humans. Much like now most of nature doesn’t seem like it’s “achieving a purpose”. But what about AIs?

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