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I coined this phrase in 1986 to get through my procrastination problems in grad school, pre-NIke. I went to Canvas (Instructure’s online course platform that has a “free for teachers” option) thinking — this can be the platform (as well as D2L because that’s what my institution uses). The wild dream is that people would […]
September 22, 2018
I wonder what a parent would think reading some of the Facebook posts from teachers that read like “first year teacher — no experience, I was a (insert career w/ more advanced) and I have no idea what to teach” or “I’ve got 15 students, 3 of them destroy the room periodically and we have […]
September 20, 2018
Hints that students see math as a mess of rules: (10 + 5) 3 Many will apply the distributive property that they recently learned. Then, “Oh, no!!! I did it wrong! We have to do what’s in the parentheses first!” I do try to make the connections but it *almost* makes me wish I were […]
September 20, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 From Curry D. Where to Focus so Students Become College and Career Ready. Journal Of Research & Practice For Adult Literacy, Secondary & Basic Education [serial online]. Spring2017 2017;6(1):62. The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) asked: What does it […]
September 20, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 This is part 5 of a summary of research and articles about remedial/developmental math in colleges and adult education. What would I like to see happen? What would I be willing to invest my time and energy and knowledge in? Remember this? In […]
September 18, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 So… how can courses be improved? Some ideas: Saxon D, Martirosyan N. NADE Members Respond: Improving Accelerated Developmental Mathematics Courses. Journal Of Developmental Education [serial online]. Fall2017 2017;41(1):24-27 The top 3 challenges to running “supported accelerated courses” which happen to be really […]
September 18, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 So: what is the current state of developmental education? According to Hunter Boylan: “If the only thing that you are offering your students is a course in pre-algebra, then it is probably a remedial course. If […]
September 16, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 2 of a summary of research (including some summaries of research :)) about mathematics and adult education and developmental / remedial math in colleges. Stigler, J.W. et al. (2010) What community college developmental mathematics students understand about mathematics. MathAMATYC Educ. 10, […]
September 16, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Yesterday I posted a “thread” on twitter — my first attempt at that as communication. I’m going to try to replicate that here, more accessibly than the images of powerpoint slides. I’ve been reading a lot of research on developmental math, remedial math, […]
September 12, 2018
Sigh, yes, there’s a new edition of Math Literacy. Sigh, yes, it still has the same editing standards for the computer part as the other one, which is to say: lousy. Problems that the right answer is marked wrong, and when you click on “show example” or “solution” it throws NaN errors (so the “answer”, […]
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September 22, 2018
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