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June 2023
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Math and College Admissions

Adding Perspective: Why Student Voices Are Integral to Math Access

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Elisha Smith Arrillaga
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Access to rigorous, high-quality mathematics is essential for high school students reaching their full potential, whether or not they pursue a degree or career in STEM. To best understand students’ math opportunities, it’s important that we hear directly from them. Their perspectives are critical to finding and implementing solutions to improve access to advanced math courses.
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May 2023
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Rethinking Math

Math and Mental Health: Tackling Anxiety and Burnout

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Pamela Burdman
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Math anxiety and burnout are bearing down on high school students in a post-pandemic academic landscape. And math classes’ lack of relevance to the contemporary world appears to have something to do with it.
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April 2023
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College Math Requirements

What is the Goal of Requiring Undergraduates to Take Math?

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Pamela Burdman
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About 50 years ago when university math chairs were surveyed, only 10 percent thought a math course should be a college graduation requirement for all students. Today, virtually every undergraduate is required to take math in order to earn a degree. This dramatic change begs the question: Why do we consider it important for college students to learn math?
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March 2023
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High School Math Policies

Why Taking Math Can Be More Important Than What Math You Take

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Pamela Burdman
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Controversies over proposals for high school math reform have centered on which courses students take in their junior and senior year, rather than whether they are taking any math at all. This oversight is consequential, because the state of California requires only two years of math for high school graduation, putting it at the bottom nationally. A majority of the state’s districts require an additional year
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February 2023
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College Math Requirements

The Hidden Cost of Calculus Prerequisites

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Marcelo Almora Rios
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It’s no secret that we are in the midst of a student debt crisis. Seventy percent of students who receive a bachelor’s degree have education debt by the time they graduate. In 2017, 68 percent of bachelor’s degree holders of the class of 2016 owed $30,800 or more in federal student loan debt. Many approaches to solving this crisis rightly focus on the cost of education itself and addressing predatory private
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