ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our coverage of new approaches to math education drew the most interest from readers, with two different features exploring how to rethink calculus making our Top 5. EdSurge takes you inside Harvard’s Science Center, where this summer, professors imagined new ways to push calculus past its limits. Researchers are betting on it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. For example, lots of principals say that their school offers algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech. Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt? Will the ideas catch on?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. Research shows students may drop out or change their major based on these gateway courses.” Organic chemistry , anyone?) history surveys.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math. If a calculus class wont help students with their career goals, he suggests incorporating different options, like statistics classes, early on.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

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. For some researchers, California misstepped. It’s a phenomenon researchers are painfully aware of.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2021

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Students researched online as often as in the library. Before trying this, do a little research about these geeky folk who relish challenges and live for a problem they can’t solve.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, there is a great deal of research support for consistent retrieval practice and self-testing to build automaticity with number facts. I’m not talking about people choosing not to study calculus. The problem isn’t with timed retrieval practice exercises like the Mad Minute. We must invest in staffing these positions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Their courses are difficult, and it can be hard to find the time to attend class, study for exams and write research papers. Students can hand in quality, well-written and researched essays to get good grades. Statistics, calculus, coding, predictive modeling, and data visualization are all relevant subjects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Students researched online as often as in the library. Before trying this, do a little research about these geeky folk who relish challenges and live for a problem they can’t solve. 1:1 became a reality.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Students researched online as often as in the library. Before trying this, do a little research about these geeky folk who relish challenges and live for a problem they can’t solve.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

But in college, where she’s a business major, calculus is proving insurmountable. In the classroom, researchers don’t know much about what works for anxiety, Ganley says. But Ganley suggests that the research doesn’t support any blanket statements. But there are things that instructors can do, some researchers say.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

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 ?) isn’t working.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of mathematical functions, even smile at the mention of calculus. Students researched online as often as in the library. There’s always been something mystical about people in technical professions–engineering, science, mathematics.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

This growing interest is a recognition of the fact that although federal data shows 90 percent of students from rural regions graduate from high school, only about half go directly to college, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. College admissions officers may never visit their communities.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2022

I took Calculus I, II, and III in high school at the local college, and when I enrolled at the University of Virginia, my courses included honors chemistry and physics for physics majors—although I did not major in physics. I grew up as a self-described math and science nerd.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship - The Final Report from the Connected Learning Research Network. That seems like such a small thing for an educator—it's so much easier than teaching calculus—but those are the things that actually change lives.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

You note in your book that back when you were an undergraduate at MIT, you originally wanted to be an AI researcher. And so if you asked me in 1994 or 1995 what I wanted to do, I would say, ‘Yeah, I might want to be an AI researcher.’ I encourage that researcher to watch that video of the GPT-4o tutoring demo with myself and my son.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2020

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Students researched online as often as in the library. Before trying this, do a little research about these geeky folk who relish challenges and live for a problem they can’t solve.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research?

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Youngpradit: There is research out of Stanford that found that the prevalence of cheating overall remained the same with the introduction of ChatGPT. AI can aid and empower teaching, which will be transformative, but it can't replicate those human elements that really have an impact on students' lives. That wasn't the case.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 25, 2023

The links didn’t work and as I researched, it looks like this AR experience debuted in 2020. I remember the day when many schools banned calculators because they thought it would make kids not learn math – instead, we can now teach calculus in high school as a result! So, the training data is older.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

Engineering is why traffic flows smoothly on crowded roads and why bridges survive despite massive loads of trucks, and is the foundation for much research into global warming and alternative energy. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. Like, you need to do a research paper and you need to do an expository paper, and you need to have the ability to do a creative-writing type of assignment, or something like that.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 10, 2022

Developed in collaboration with researchers at the Harvard School of Education, students read aloud and the tool collects data on fluency and accountability (think words correct per minute and total time read, among others) and a recording and transcript of their reading. And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2022

Norah Laughter, a senior from Russellville, Kentucky, is a member of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a student-led organization committed to youth development, participatory research and education policy. In 2020, she helped the organization conduct a survey of Kentucky middle and high school students about their pandemic experiences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

While TI calculators are still ubiquitous and useful especially when working in higher math classes like Trigonometry or Calculus, Desmos is an online graphic calculator that can do everything the $100+ TI calculators can do and more (and did I mention it’s free?).

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In this case, they analyze calculus and how the approach around this difficult course has changed in recent years. Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Teaching a three-week course in keyboarding at the end of the school year, where class time is used to teach typing skill s while completing an authentic project, will excite students who thought they had to slog through another unit in American History or Calculus. It has eighteen units that blend tech knowledge into the real world.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Biomedical engineering lies at the heart of medical technology, where researchers collaborate with healthcare practitioners to develop new and innovative devices that can improve the lives of patients. FIELD OF RESEARCH : Biomedical Engineering. RESEARCH PROJECT : Developing wearable biomedical devices for the skin and eye.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

My mom was a teacher and even though I went to Georgia Tech took a lot of calculus, the hardest thing I ever really learned was actually addition. And you felt like that teacher understood the research and the things you espouse that need to happen for differentiated instruction in math. You don't have to share a name.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Kristin’s research spans a wide range of applications and theoretical domains, but the one thing they all have in common is temporal logic – that is, an unambiguous, mathematically precise way of describing and reasoning about systems that change over time. WHERE WILL KRISTIN‘S RESEARCH LEAD TO IN THE FUTURE? The planes keep flying!

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Undergraduate students in the economics department learn statistics, algebra, and calculus, which they implement in quantitative research and decision-making analyses. As a result of the prevalence of pragmatism and mathematics in economics, positivism is the main research method in the discipline.

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Newton STEM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

For the summer we will be doing research into people and their life work and crafting lessons. The Calculus Project: Research indicates that success in higher-level high school mathematics is strongly associated with college enrollment and is one of the most reliable predictors of college completion.

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