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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

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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? Cryptography and Security In the digital age, security is paramount.

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

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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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We Need More Math Teachers. Here’s How to Prepare Them for Life in the Classroom.

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During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. Confirmingly, research shows that adult learners self-report lower levels of math self-efficacy and higher levels of math anxiety than traditional undergraduates.

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Why Do Underrepresented Students Struggle to Get the Math They Need for College?

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When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they’d been given in high school, the researchers found that it was stratified by race. We didn’t have a counselor, so I just did my own personal research on how to apply to colleges,” says one student quoted in the report. My school was very, like, underfunded.

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

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Spoon's experiment coincided with research about how student performance is influenced by instructional practices. Gateway courses such as statistics, algebra or precalculus serve as a portal to educational achievement and possible careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

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

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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 ?)

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