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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. Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle.

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How to Master Math Wooden Manipulatives Get Your High Score

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Photo by olia danilevich: [link] How to Master Math Wooden Manipulatives Get Your High Score – Are you struggling to grasp basic math concepts? If so, math wooden manipulatives might be the solution for you! These hands-on tools are designed to help you learn and understand math in a more tangible and interactive way.

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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”. And one area where ChatGPT—like humans—often tends to struggle is math. Some of it is instead more formal and structured. It’s a tremendously powerful way of working.

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

Stephen Wolfram

How Math Relates to Humans. 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. 27 Invented or Discovered?

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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., Interview participants were purposively selected to include perspectives from teachers with a broad range of self-efficacy levels and, to the degree possible, genders and subject areas (math or science). 1988; Caprara et al., So that really boosted my confidence.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

How do we achieve this? Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. The same is true of axioms for areas of abstract algebra like group theory—as well as basic Euclidean geometry (at least for integers). But there is a subtlety here.