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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. The district hoped that scrapping honors math classes and eighth grade algebra courses would reduce disparities in math learning in the district.

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Here Are the 10 Stories K-12 Readers Couldn’t Put Down in 2024

ED Surge

They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. By Daniel Mollenkamp California made a controversial policy decision last year when it adopted a new math framework that recommends waiting until ninth grade to start students in algebra. Here's What Does.

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Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind

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” It’s the kids without their nose in a book that notice the world around them, make connections, and learn natively. Remaining Open to Continuous Learning. The result is a compelling argument that education is less a data download and more a fitness program for our brains. Gathering Data through All Senses.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

ED Surge

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Teachers hated it.

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

National Science Foundation

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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Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI

Stephen Wolfram

Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays Language Tune-Ups Brightening Our Colors; Spiffing Up for 2025 LLM Streamlining & Streaming Streamlining Parallel Computation: Launch All the Machines!

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What should mathematics majors know about computing, and when should they know it?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

As I teach my Linear Algebra and Differential Equations class this semester, which uses more computing than ever, I'm thinking even more about these topics. In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. Mostly this is because of two things.