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Jack Rotman is a developmental math maven and involved in creating clearer paths for students through college math demands. This blog about striving to reach 100% of our students expresses my thinking when I’m looking at the stuff that inspired my “thread” about “successes” in developmental math. To wit: Advertisements
October 13, 2018
This was the final session that I attended (2;45-345; I bugged out 3:30 b/c taxi comign at 4:00). It seems to me that the folks who want to “decolonize” things tend to be in the humanities or the more tech-oriented ones (yes, there were fascinating sessions about data analysis and privacy… the “access code” barriers […]
October 3, 2018
Yesterday I got out of the building *just* after six (when my workday ends Tuesdays), b/c the fire alarm was insisting we depart. Guiding a student to the bus stop (finding it from the closest exit a challenge) I met w/ a math instructor wondering how to best handle students who were overwhelmed by fractions […]
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 […]
August 1, 2018
(‘dem bones… the Mary Ellen Carter… and this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42F12OUTkIo ) Tomorrow is “help with STAR” across the way. Blog read of the day: “Nothing new, Just a Review, Part 2:” wherein the blogger says he likes to start each day with a low-stakes quiz because that’ retrieval, thank you. And it’s a good thing that the […]
July 16, 2018
http://images.pearsonassessments.com/images/NES_Publications/2009_ES_Publications/06_Stigler.pdf “Reflections on Mathematics Teaching and How To IMprove It.” This reminds me of the MTT2K winning movie: What if Khan Academy was Made In Japan? The article noted that across countries, teaching tended to be done the same way, which surprised them. The “second truth” was that … there’s more than one way […]
July 12, 2018
Going to start w/ “integers early” version and an interactive “let’s put these degrees where they’d be on the thermometer” thing. There are 31 activities that come up on Geogebra when I search for “thermometer,” including 1 from Illustrative Math that has an activity with a word problem, where you can use the activity to […]
December 10, 2018
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