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Equity and Access in Math Education

ED Surge

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Another cause for the achievement gap is that Black and Latino students experiencing poverty are more likely to have teachers with weaker mathematical backgrounds.

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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. Let’s Not Be So Quick to Give Up on Algebra.

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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Stephen Wolfram

But while ChatGPT is a remarkable achievement in automating the doing of major human-like things, not everything that’s useful to do is quite so “human like”. Put another way, it’d take “fixing” an almost infinite number of “bugs” to patch up what even an almost-infinitesimal corner of Wolfram|Alpha can achieve in its structured way.

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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

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The scope of objectives Olivia and Barbara are aiming for students to achieve demands a range of learning experiences. If you have the option, take a statistics course and mathematics courses beyond algebra,” says Barbara. The future of science lies in embracing diversity and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

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Consider the Source(s): Supporting the Cultivation of Early Career STEM Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs

National Science Foundation

1990) and student achievement (Anderson et al., Not just for the engagement, but also, the students had taken their trimester exam, and we scored number one out of the entire network for algebra. However, just as Bandura (1997) theorized, not all feedback was considered equal when it came to its influence on self-efficacy.

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How to Master Math Wooden Manipulatives Get Your High Score

STEM Education Shopping

For example, if you have a fraction bar that’s divided into four equal parts, you can see that each part represents one-fourth. By combining two of these bars, you can visually see that two-fourths is equal to one-half. So grab some base ten blocks and start exploring the world of place value today!

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

Stephen Wolfram

And in what follows we’ll see the great power that arises from using this to combine the achievements and intuitions of physics and mathematics—and how this lets us think about new “general laws of mathematics”, and view the ultimate foundations of mathematics in a different light. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ?