Post: Learning Math Virtually: What’s Essential in Assessment?
What a difference a pandemic makes. Just last week, the University of California system broke with decades of tradition by deciding to permanently suspend the SAT and ACT tests as … More
Resource: Architects of Math Opportunity: Exploring Equity in Students’ Postsecondary Math Pathway Choices
To challenge and ultimately change the prevailing architecture of math opportunity entails broadening and updating the content of math and quantitative reasoning courses required for college success. As postsecondary institutions in California … More
Post: Coronavirus and College Admissions: Ensuring Flexibility, Clarity and Equity
As students around the country face unprecedented disruptions to their high school experiences, institutions of higher education are waiving once-rigid admissions requirements, such as test scores and grades in required … More
Post: Promises and Pitfalls of Diverse Math Pathways: Examining Equity in Students’ Course Choices
Diversifying the pathways students take through high school and college mathematics has the potential to open avenues to college for more students. That’s why many of us support efforts to … More
Resource: Go Figure: Exploring Equity in Students’ Postsecondary Math Pathway Choices
Colleges and universities around the country have been reforming their mathematics requirements, rejecting the traditional one-size-fits-all mathematics courses in favor of a range of options that align with students’ fields … More
Post: Math in CSU Admissions: Moving Forward with Evidence
The recent debate over California State University’s well-intended proposal to require an additional quantitative reasoning (QR) course for admission highlights the challenges of efforts to bolster mathematics preparation. And the … More
Post: We can make math less traumatic by ensuring every student is on the right pathway
Mathematics classes and tests—even more than other subjects— are regularly used to rank students and limit their future opportunities. The practice of tracking students into lower-quality course options with less … More
Post: Why Calculus? Why Indeed?
Why does high school calculus, generally AP Calculus, play such an outsize role in the access to competitive colleges? And should it? Clearly the reason for the dominance of Calculus … More