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Tag Archives: Curriculum
Access To Epidemic Modeling
Kurt Kreith and Alvin Mendle, University of California, Davis Covid-19 has left teachers seeking topics that are both engaging and lend themselves to online instruction. As a guiding force for the measures that have reshaped our lives, epidemic modeling stands … Continue reading
Happy New Year(?)
Mark Saul, Editor Mathematics and mathematicians rarely make press. So it was a bit sweet, but mostly bitter, to read in the New Yorker of the deaths of John Conway, Ronald Graham, and Freeman Dyson, three great losses to our profession. … Continue reading
Writing Good Questions for the Internet Era
Jeff Suzuki CUNY Brooklyn The forced conversion to distance learning in Spring 2020 caught most of us off-guard. One of the biggest problems we face is the existence of free or freemium online calculators that show all steps required to … Continue reading
The MAA Instructional Practices Guide
By Benjamin Braun, University of Kentucky In December 2017, the MAA released the Instructional Practices Guide (IP Guide), for which I served on the Steering Committee as a lead writer. The IP Guide is a substantial resource focused on the … Continue reading
Conventional Courses are Not Enough for Future High School Teachers
By Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska – Lincoln and Heather Howell, Educational Testing Service Consider how you would respond to two different versions of a question. In the first, you are asked to solve a high school mathematics problem. In the second, some high … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, K-12 Education
Tagged Curriculum, preservice teachers, teacher training
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The Second Year of “On Teaching and Learning Mathematics”
By Art Duval, Contributing Editor, University of Texas at El Paso Another year has flown by, and so it is once again a good time to collect and reflect on all the articles we have been able to share with … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Practices, Curriculum, Early Childhood, Education Policy, K-12 Education, Online Education, Outreach, Student Experiences, Year in Review
Tagged Active Learning Series 2015, Conceptual Understanding, Curriculum, K-12 mathematics, outreach, service learning, standards based grading
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Preparing the Next Generation of Students in the Mathematical Sciences to “Think with Data”
By Johanna Hardin, Pomona College, and Nicholas J. Horton, Amherst College As statisticians in mathematics departments, we have both spent many department meetings, departmental reviews, and water-cooler conversations discussing the merits of various different curricular decisions with respect to the … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Practices, Communication, Curriculum
Tagged Curriculum, journals, statistics
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Creating the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide
by Martha J. Siegel, Professor, Towson University I serve as chair of the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA’s) Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM). Approximately every ten years, CUPM publishes a new curriculum guide, with the primary goal of … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Education Policy, Student Experiences
Tagged CUPM, Curriculum, MAA, Math Majors
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