In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...
Nearly 85 percent of Georgia teachers participating in a recent survey said they would rather use the traditional algebra-geometry-algebra 2 pathway for high school math than the integrated model the ...
It was argued here recently by a professor of mathematics that algebra should be required of everyone in high school because it teaches how to think logically. Perhaps it does, but what an awful way ...
A growing number of states have begun to require community colleges to allow more students with academic deficiencies to skip remediation and enroll directly in college-level courses. New research ...
A new report from LearningWorks, a nonprofit group that focuses on California community colleges, takes a look at experiments to reform remedial mathematics by emphasizing preparation in statistics ...
To balance that, Hacker argues that we do need a solid ability to reason is systemic and/or quantitative ways, and he seems to think statistics is a better way to do that, or possibly in some parts of ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Who needs algebra? Most U.S. educators would say everyone does. But political scientist Andrew Hacker offers an opposing view in a provocative new book, arguing algebra has become an ...
When students are genuinely curious about new concepts and ideas, they develop their own study skills, says Pekka Pankka, professor and teacher in the specialization. Geometry, Algebra, and Topology ...
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