Numbers evoke joy and wonder, why doesn’t math class?
First comes math. Then comes the aftermath. What happens to students after they take high school or college math? The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics say math class should … More
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New Math Policies Pay Off for Cal State Students, and It’s About Time
At last week’s meeting with their trustees, California State University officials shared positive early results of the system’s new way of ensuring the math proficiency of incoming students. This is … MoreLetter to CSU Chancellor’s Office on Increasing Math Requirement for Admissions
Just Equations submitted a letter of concern to the CSU Chancellor’s Office, addressing the faculty recommendation to increase the math or quantitative reasoning requirement for admissions. While Just Equations supports … More
CSU Bid to Raise Math Requirement May Limit Student Access
In an an op-ed published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Just Equations founder Pamela Burdman sheds light on a proposal from CSU faculty to increase math requirements for incoming students. Because that proposal risks … More
CSU’s First Steps Toward Improving Graduation Rates Have Impact
In her first blog post of 2019, our founder Pamela Burdman reveals the good news in data CSU recently shared with Just Equations: As of last fall, the system had succeeded … More
Why Do so Many Students Believe They Are Just Not Cut out for Math?
Following our latest report release, the Atlanta Journal Constitution devotes a “Get Schooled” blog post to the report, The Mathematics of Opportunity: Rethinking the Role of Math in Educational Equity. … More
Changing the Architecture of Math Opportunity
The architecture of math opportunity is “undergirded by misconceptions about math learning, scaffolded by existing educational inequities and stereotypes, and reinforced by math’s role as a marker or pedigree that … More
Protected: The Mathematics of Opportunity Convening
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