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November 12, 2019
The most recent article was about math beyond developmental — college algebra. This article is pre-developmental; it’s about high school. The authors aim high with this analogy: we should be “making mathematics ‘a pump, not a filter’. That’s worth pausing and considering. What would that look like???? The *antithesis* of gatekeeping. That’s […]
November 4, 2019
Technically not an article; it’s transcript from a podcast. “Grow Up, Branch Out.” It suggests we could have mathematical literacy infused in *life* and all through college, no matter what you’re major. I was intrigued by an early quote: We call QL a literacy for the same reason: it is not a skill that we […]
April 11, 2019
Somebody posted a conversion chart that included gills and quarts and barrels, causing a tangential earworm. I searched enough to find the “barley mow” song… so now I can at least separate that in my brain from the drinking song about eating a mallard starting with the leg, which I failed in finding… Just because […]
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 […]
August 14, 2018
This is scholarly so it’s not another “nobody knows math! they shouldn’t have to!” blurge… Considering a Technological Redesign of Developmental Mathematics? It’s Sixes got me through this morning’s “beginning of year address” from our college prez. From 2012, it’s a bit of a summary. The “sixes” does mean six of one (good things), half a […]
February 26, 2018
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-02-20/researchers-unsure-which-remedial-education-models-work-best-for-students Okay, first, it suffers from “looking for the solution.” What works best? … drum roll… wait for it … It depends Different students need different things. Nope, they can’t go there. It talks about acceleration and eliminating remediation not necessarily being a good idea, and then talks about “co-requisite” […]
January 25, 2018
Let’s get back to math! I finished reading the article about “adapting perception, action and technology for mathematical reasoning” … Some fun snippets: “People who know algebra show earlier and longer eye fixations to “×”s than “+”s in the context of math problems” Your brain is trained to look at that first and harder. I *know* I […]
October 6, 2017
“market brief” from EdWeek about … math skills compared to other developing countries. No, it’s not good… and the very last thing is interesting, too… I’m trying to parse it out. For U.S. adults in their 20’s, score gaps in literacy and numeracy between individuals with a high school degree and non-graduates were far wider […]
March 22, 2016
The California Acceleration Project: Reforming Developmental Education to Increase Student Completion of College-Level Math and English, to be precise, is the article I just read. It’s by Katie Hern with Myra Snell, and I could only find it via our library database. Interesting that the three articles that didn’t have a link to full text […]
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May 28, 2021
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Note the first paragraph: let to “gains in access.” Access isn’t equity, last I heard. They changed placement rules and more people had access!! (Not saying this is a bad thing, just thinking that it being “remarkable” is interesting.) Okay, now to the actual success insaid courses: 61% ofall students taking English first time successfully […]