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First day of Spring Break and I’m at the office; yes, that non-student has said good morning and availed themself of a snack from the snack bar, and I REALLY DO WANT TO SPEND AT LEAST 5 OF THE 28 HOURS (one of ’em is gone already) on the MOODLE course and 6 on the […]
March 4, 2023
Wonsun Ryu, Lauren Schudde, & Kim Pack. (2022). Constructing Corequisites: How Community Colleges Structure Corequisite Math Coursework and the Implications for Student Success. AERA Open, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221086664 This one discusses what kinds of co-req designs were more important. In the “nope, no surprise!!” category, for “ease of interpretation,” the results are presented in terms of […]
December 9, 2022
… UGH, right? But Luminary-Labs has finalists for it here. … and it made me happy to see that the two finalists … make sense to me. To wit: The DRUM (Digital Rational Number) Intervention. DRUM will use number lines and analogies to support students’ understanding of multiple number types (for example, whole numbers, fractions, […]
November 30, 2022
Inside Higher Ed so not research, just opinion. “Deficiency Mind-Set Bedevils Developmental Math“ Okay, this person is at least dean of STEM at a technical college. He starts out stating that people have to take too many developmental classes and why are we so fixated on the algebra? Okay, to the real thing: they created […]
October 7, 2022
This article in Chronicle of Higher Ed about the resistance of students to the “rigor” of an Organic Chemistry class, though — it summarizes so many issues, but HEAVENS TO MURGATROYD!!! it suggests that we consider questioning the idea that a whole certain percentage of students should be “weeded out.” Now to a fractions lesson […]
January 15, 2021
And 3-day weekend! Yes, I took the bus this a.m. — but hadn’t successfully gotten my itty bitty computer to work so I couldn’t read the Long Thing About How Your Little Certificate Programs Keep Poor People Poor. I *could* read this little description of a way to teach multiplication called Please Go and Bring […]
May 7, 2020
Here’s an article about developmental classes and technology that I think I’ve seen written about before …about moving developmental math online: basically students report positive experiences but … the actual results in passing the next class aren’t as good. Faculty concerns: students have positive experiences because they figure out how to game the tech […]
January 17, 2020
Reading on the bus: Multiplication is for white people because I left the article about Florida on my desk. Descriptions of middle and high school classrooms where students are coloring…. makes me want to GET OUT THERE and shake things. (THe “Crayola Curriculum…” I suppose word searches are a full step ahead of this in […]
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 […]
November 1, 2019
Alexandra Logue shared this article about the Relationship between Required Corequisite Learning and Success in College Algebra from the Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs. Students in college algebra who participated in corequisitie learning were compared to students who did not. The students with the support did a whole lot better. There was a fair […]
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March 13, 2023
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