Parents feel ‘unequipped’ to help children with maths
Josie Gurney-Read: “It’s not a subject, maths, it’s a language. A language, without which, we cannot communicate. The teaching of arithmetic and algebra, for example, is like teaching the grammar of...
View ArticleDespite angst over standardized testing, Wisconsin may be on right path
Alan Borsuk: This may be the most politically incorrect thing I’ve ever said in this space: There are positive things to say about what’s going on in standardized testing in Wisconsin. Everybody hates...
View Article‘We have to do better’– Trenton school officials seek reversal of low test...
Jenna Pizzi: For students from third to eighth grades, achievement has remained stagnant over the last five years. Last school year, the district had 26.9 percent of third graders ranked as proficient...
View ArticleToo Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don’t Think They’re Smart
Alexandra Osola: For most students, science, math, engineering, and technology (STEM) subjects are not intuitive or easy. Learning in general—and STEM in particular—requires repeated trial and error,...
View ArticleOn B-School Test, Americans Fail to Measure Up; “Improve K-12 Math”
Lindsay Gellman: New waves of Indians and Chinese are taking America’s business-school entrance exam, and that’s causing a big problem for America’s prospective M.B.A.s. Why? The foreign students are...
View ArticleOntoMathPro Ontology Page
OntoMathPro: The OntoMathPro ontology has been developed by a research group from Kazan Federal University. The ontology is geared to be the hub for math knowledge in the Web of Data. We shared the...
View ArticleAlgorithms on Khan Academy, a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
Pamela Fox: What is an algorithm? It’s a sequence of steps that you follow to solve a problem. In everyday life, you might have an algorithm for hanging up your laundry, efficiently going through a...
View ArticleJeb Bush speaks up for Common Core
Chloe Sorvino: “In my view, the rigour of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms,” Mr Bush said. “For those states choosing a path other than Common Core, I say this: Aim...
View ArticleWhy I hate (and love) visualizations of mathematics
Jeremy Kun: Let’s say I’m trying to learn about a difficult mathematical concept. For this example I’ll use Markov chains because I recently saw a highly-appreciated visualization of Markov chains due...
View ArticleMore districts are searching internationally to find candidates for...
Alison Denisco: When a national search attracted only a few new candidates, Casa Grande administrators hired a consulting agency to search for teachers overseas. Avenida International Consultants gave...
View ArticleShould the U.S. Make Standardized Tests Harder?
Mikhail Zinshteyn: With opposition to the new Common Core State Standards and the assessments linked to them reaching a fever pitch, advocating for better tests seems like an unpopular proposition. But...
View ArticleMeasuring Hard-to-Measure Student Competencies
Brian M. Stecher, Laura S. Hamilton : Efforts to prepare students for college, careers, and civic engagement have traditionally emphasized academic skills, but a growing body of research suggests that...
View ArticleHow or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?
Hacker News As I’ve become more skilled with programming and electronics I have felt myself begin to near a wall. My knowledge of and skills in math is relatively poor and all the interesting things...
View ArticleSeeking coders, tech titans turn to schools
Stephanie Simon: President Barack Obama sat down Monday to write a few lines of computer code with middle school students from Newark, N.J., for a PR campaign that has earned bipartisan endorsements...
View ArticleThoughts on diversity
Mike Zamansky: It gives a reasonable overview of the gender issues in computer science education. The article talks about the drop in popularity of the old Advanced Placement AB course and its...
View ArticleWhy Math Might Be The Secret To School Success
Anya Kamenetz: Little children are big news this week, as the White House holds a summit on early childhood education on Wednesday. The president wants every 4-year-old to go to preschool, but the new...
View ArticleWhat Students Do (And Don’t Do) In Khan Academy
Dan Meyer: tl;dr — Khan Academy claims alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) but an analysis of their eighth-grade year indicates that alignment is loose. 40% of Khan Academy exercises...
View ArticleCan a simple algebra test predict programming aptitude?
Jenni White: Every year since the establishment of Computer Science in the 1960s, 30-60% of CS college majors have failed their Introduction to Computer Science course because they simply could not...
View ArticleWhat’s So Troubling About Competency-Based Education?
Marni Baker Stein: In the last week since it was announced that the University of Texas System is diving in to competency-based education (CBE), it has become clear to me that a lot of the controversy...
View ArticleA Rural High School with a 21st Century Outlook
Deborah Fallows: As a supplement its standard academic instruction, the school has started a modified version of the “career academies, ” the career technical education programs, which Jim wrote about...
View ArticleHigh Teacher Scores Bring New Scrutiny
Leslie Brody: The vast majority of teachers and principals across New York got high grades for their work last year, state data showed Tuesday, prompting top education officials to call for tougher...
View ArticleThe Man Behind Common Core Math Standards
Sarah Garland: Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls...
View ArticleIn-depth introduction to machine learning in 15 hours of expert videos
data school: In January 2014, Stanford University professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani (authors of the legendary Elements of Statistical Learning textbook) taught an online course based on their...
View ArticleGallery of Math Ideas
Lucas/VB:: Below is a mostly comprehensive gallery of all images — illustrations, diagrams and animations — that I have created for Wikipedia over the years, some of which have been selected as...
View ArticleJacob Bernoulli’s Legacy in Mathematica
Oleksandr Pavlyk: Jacob Bernoulli was the first mathematician in the Bernoulli family, which produced many notable mathematicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jacob Bernoulli’s...
View Article“number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S....
American Institutes for Research and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting: The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more...
View ArticleTimes Tables on Stairs
Steve McCormack: Never tire of this. Times tables on school stairs. Helps embed facts in young minds and build on understanding. http://t.co/c4wt23Ew7q
View ArticleHow mathematicians are storytellers and numbers are the characters
Marcus du Sautoy: Mathematicians are storytellers. Our characters are numbers and geometries. Our narratives are the proofs we create about these characters. Many people believe that doing maths is a...
View ArticlePrinceton Is Teaching a Free Online Course About Bitcoin
Jason Koebler: It’s probably safe to bet that there are lots of people out there who use Bitcoin, but who don’t really know how it works. And really, why would you? There are primers and forums and...
View ArticleOpening the archives: a significant development
Brian Tarran: Significance was launched in March 2004 with a clear remit: to demonstrate the importance of statistics and the contributions it makes in all areas of life. As founding editor Helen Joyce...
View ArticleVisualisation of which parts of the multiplication table 5-8 year old...
Reddit: I found it interesting that the chart is asymmetrical… They should be the same though I guess at the age where you are learning times tables you wouldn’t really grasp the symmetry of...
View ArticleClosing the math gap for boys
David Kirp: ON a recent afternoon, the banter of boisterous adolescents at Edwin G. Foreman High School, in a poor, racially and ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood, echoed off the corridor walls....
View ArticleU.S. students improving – slowly – in math and science, but still lagging...
Drew Desilver: Scientists and the general public have markedly different views on any number of topics, from evolution to climate change to genetically modified foods. But one thing both groups agree...
View ArticleCelebrate statistics as a vital part of democracy
The Guardian: From reading your editorial on the use of statistics in political debate (30 January) your readers might have come away with the impression that no numbers in the public arena can be...
View ArticleSign up now for the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course
Arvind Narayanan: At Princeton I taught a course on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies during the semester that just ended. Joe Bonneau unofficially co-taught it with me. Based on student feedback...
View ArticleTesting Costs a Drop in the Bucket
Matthew M. Chingos: The cost of standardized tests, long assailed by testing critics as too high, has resurfaced in the debate over reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act currently underway in...
View ArticleHow Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and...
Claire Cain Miller: We know that women are underrepresented in math and science jobs. What we don’t know is why it happens. There are various theories, and many of them focus on childhood. Parents and...
View ArticleCalling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour
Alexandre Borovik: The growing disconnection of the majority of the population from mathematics is increasingly difficult to ignore. This paper focuses on the socio-economic roots of this cultural and...
View ArticleDo our obsessions with maths add up?
The Times of London: Opinions differ over Alice Thomson’s belief that a good grounding in the basics is sufficient Sir, Mathematics is not just about learning multiplication tables and algebra (“This...
View ArticleThoughts on the Technical Track
Dan McKinley: My views on the merits of having a technical track align with those of many people in our industry. Management is a different job, with different skills. They’re not necessarily more...
View ArticleThere are two models of online education
Sam Gerstanzang: 1. Preparatory knowledge, in the form of course-based video-delivered teachings: Coursera, Udacity, Thinkful, etc. 2. On demand knowledge: Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Genius, etc. Of the...
View ArticleWas Larry Summers Right about Women in Science and Math?
Richard Bradley: As NPR reports, a childhood friend of his, Eileen Pollack, a former scientist and now a teacher of creative writing at the University of Michigan, has written a book exploring why...
View ArticleStatistics Style Guide
Style.ONS: This style guide covers the elements of writing about statistics. It aims to make statistical content more open and understandable, based on editorial research and best practice. The...
View ArticleDegrees don’t matter anymore, skills do
Miles Kimball: Too much of our educational system, both at the K-12 level and in higher education, is built around the idea that some students are smart and others are dumb. One shining exception are...
View ArticleRemarks on Expository Writing in Mathematics
Robert Ash: Successful graduate students in mathematics are able to reach an advanced level in one or more areas. Textbooks are an important part of this process. A skilled lecturer is able to...
View ArticleThe hidden story behind the code that runs our lives
Paul Voosen: Magic has entered our world. In the pockets of many Americans today are thin black slabs that, somehow, understand and anticipate our desires. Linked to the digital cloud and satellites...
View ArticleHigher Academic Achievement May Require Higher Standards
Joe Yeado: While at the gym last week, I overheard two fathers discussing the homework their elementary and middle school children were bringing home. The general feeling was that the homework was too...
View ArticleLawmaker wants to bill K-12 for college remediation
Alisha Kirby: (Tenn.) As the cost and challenge of preparing college-ready students escalates and puts new burdens on higher education – one lawmaker is proposing that districts should pay for remedial...
View ArticleUniversities must prepare for a technology-enabled future
Subhash Kak: Automation and artificial intelligence technologies are transforming manufacturing, corporate work and the retail business, providing new opportunities for companies to explore and posing...
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