Advancing a Mathematics of Opportunity

In an op-ed for the Hechinger Report, Veronica Anderson, co-author of Just Equations' report “A New Calculus for College Admissions,” notes how entrenched beliefs about calculus as a sign of rigor can still play a significant role in admissions. She argues that there are other routes, including statistics and data science, for high school students to gain the quantitative reasoning skills that prepare them for college and the workplace.

EdSource quotes Just Equations Founder and CEO Pamela Burdman on the race to calculus and the viability of alternate math pathways in this article on California’s revised math frameworks, which have an important focus on advancing math equity and expanding math courses to reflect the use of mathematics in the 21st century.

In an op-ed for Scientific American, Just Equations Executive Director Pamela Burdman highlights how making math science central to math education can be a strategy to increase diversity in STEM fields, by ensuring that courses such as Calculus “warm up” rather than “weed out” students.

David Bressoud cites Just Equations' report, A New Calculus for College Admissions, in the March installment of his Launchings, Teaching & Learning blog for the Mathematical Association of America.