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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? Cryptography and Security In the digital age, security is paramount.
ED Surge
APRIL 21, 2023
Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process. Today, we live in a time when technology offers students the potential of unlimited support.
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ED Surge
MARCH 4, 2024
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. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. Oh, do you want to try? “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,”
ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2023
With educators duking it out in the so-called “math wars” over the curriculum changes in California — which recommended delaying algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus in K-12 — the question rose to the fore this year. The issue is algebra skills. Those with strong algebra skills will excel at calculus.
ED Surge
JULY 25, 2023
This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic. Read the first part here. With numbers comes strength, and we need to realize that numbers are powerful.”
National Science Foundation
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
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.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. The solution?
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