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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

Those attempting to reform this practice contend that all students are mathematically brilliant, he says. Thats in part because algebra is considered a critical point in the race to calculus. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The solution?

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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

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There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

ED Surge

Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. That’s something she sees in math tracking as well.

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Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

ED Surge

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

ED Surge

One thing we can do to support teachers is make AI accessible in a practical way to educators, [making it as easy as] asking about what's for dinner tonight or how I can plan my vacation. Johnson: If we want to ensure equitable access, I want to really hammer home the point that teachers need training.

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

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. 4 Simple Examples with Mathematical Interpretations. 15 Axiom Systems of Present-Day Mathematics. 21 What Can Human Mathematics Be Like? Graphical Key.