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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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? High school often focuses on procedural understanding—how to solve problems with well-defined steps.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Similarly, reformers have focused on the timing of the course, aiming to enroll students as early as possible to open pathways to calculus and to diversify access to higher level mathematics. Domina et al., 2015; Dougherty et al., 2017; Stein et al.,

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So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

And like so much during the pandemic, the losses were worse for some communities, with achievement gaps having widened during the pandemic. billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons.

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