Achievement Algebra Flexibility 
ED Surge
MAY 28, 2024
Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. Perhaps most controversial was its treatment of algebra.
ED Surge
APRIL 21, 2023
One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Another cause for the achievement gap is that Black and Latino students experiencing poverty are more likely to have teachers with weaker mathematical backgrounds.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 24, 2015
In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. Thinking Flexibly. Thinking Flexibly. Managing impulsivity.
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.
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MAY 1, 2018
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Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 23, 2023
And in the end, as we’ll discuss later, that’s a more flexible and powerful way to communicate. The whole process of “prompt engineering” feels a bit like animal wrangling: you’re trying to get ChatGPT to do what you want, but it’s hard to know just what it will take to achieve that. But ChatGPT has all but made this process obsolete.
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 7, 2022
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. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ?
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