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Math Anxiety Hurts Too Many Kids. Here’s How We Can Curb It.

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Contrary to what might be expected, it disproportionately affects high-ability students who default from efficient mathematical strategies that rely on working memory to less-efficient ones. We can teach students to use reappraisal techniques to harness anxiety as a form of energy that can fuel their hard work and improvement.

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Teach Critical Thinking

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Manage your city so it’s energy efficient and sustainable. . George Polya presented by the Mathematical Association of America. Do these descriptions sound familiar (ask your game-playing students)? Take the helm of your own country and work together with others to solve international problems! How to Critically Think.

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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.

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A Case for ‘Radical Simplification’ in Higher Education

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In ten days’ time, we had to reinvent college-level mathematics instruction on a large scale—more than 100 sections of courses and nearly 3000 students—with no playbook. So I’ve stopped prioritizing time and energy to anything that doesn’t seem to matter, and to stop feeling guilty about it.

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For Latino Students, the Fear of Being Left Behind in AI and STEM Jobs

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Just one in 10 tech workers are Latino, and while Latino college students are choosing STEM fields in college more frequently , they earn only about 12 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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How to Teach STEM Every Day

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STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. 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. These four topics cover every aspect of our life.

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NAEP ‘Nation’s Report Card’ Shows Steep Fall in Math Scores

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The decline in the national average scores was the “largest ever in mathematics,” according to NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr, one of the people in charge of the assessment, who noted in a prepared statement that the scores reveal the importance of instruction and schools in students’ performance. This was already well known.

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