Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus
The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.
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New Math Policies Would Hurt Gifted Students
New Math Policies Would Hurt Gifted Students Commentary Perhaps Alan Erisman, who headed a team of applied mathematicians at Boeing, sums up the education of numbers best. Erisman, author of the upcoming book “The Math Myth,” says, “If we taught English the way we teach math, students would spend all their time doing spelling tests and diagramming sentences but never read a great book or ever read poetry.” That seems to be one of the issues the California’s Instructional Quality Commi...
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Is Mathematics the New Latin?
Time in school is limited. Are we requiring the right kinds of math? Who even needs it? Charles Ungerleider is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia who writes a blog on education and took two years of Latin in three years. SHARES In BC a student seeking undergraduate admissions to arts must have taken Pre-Calculus 11 or Foundations of Mathematics 12. Do the benefits add up? Photo via Shutterstock. When I was in Grade 8, I enrolled in Latin 1 �...
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