Questions tagged [curriculum]
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What are signs your high school algebra II (arithmetic) course plan focuses heavily on the first half and neglects depth in the second half?
What are signs your algebra II course plan focuses heavily on the first half and skimmed the second half?
I'm trying to figure out whether I'm going evenly.
I'm trying to figure out whether students ...
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Assigning a semi-independent project for current math I students to learn a topic in Math II overlap with math I, and teach a math II class, how to?
How can I foster a growth mindset and sense of belonging to the intellectual realm among Algebra II students by having them undertake a semi-independent project where they learn to teach an ...
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Book or curriculum for teaching base-16 numeral system to elementary, middle, or high school children?
In 1862, John W. Nystrom promoted the base-16 (hexadecimal) number system, which he called the "tonal system": Project of a New System of Arithmetic, Weight, Measure and Coins: Proposed to ...
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Dominance of connectives: Why do we teach this?
These were two actual exercises given to students I have been tutoring for a college algebra class:
I have been working very hard to convince my students of the importance and utility of learning ...
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Please identify this American elementary textbook series from the 1950s
I'm reading a book chapter (written in 1992) about the teaching of mental arithmetic and estimation techniques in elementary school. The author refers to a particular series of books as "Out-of-...
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Topics covered in Calculus I and II (university level) that aren't covered in the AP Curriculum
I teach AP Calculus BC at my high school and we have AP Calculus AB as a pre-req for taking BC. So most of my students are coming in with a strong calculus foundation, and I can spend less time on the ...
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Impact of GPT4 and future AI development on math curricula in schools
At least since pocket calculators were available there is an ongoing debate in math education of how meaningfull it is to continue to teach students how to calculations only using a paper and pencil. ...
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Math curricula\programs or any experience using "The Road to Reality" as the\a primary textbook
Primarily a reference request, collaborator search-tips requests, and question-improvement request (including improveent by deletion and re-posting to more appropriate stack, meta, wiki, etc). Rank ...
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English version of the "Spécialité Mathématiques" French baccalaureate course (for a Ukrainian refugee)?
The highschool where I'm teaching welcomes a Ukrainian refugee who is in "classe Terminale" (ultimate highschool grade in France).
The math teacher who has this student in charge is not that ...
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How does the average level of expected mathematical sophistication at high school level increase?
I remember reading an old calculus book (years 1920-1930) and in the preface it was portrayed as revolutionary because it was for high school students. Nowadays, that is not revolutionary, because ...
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What are examples of math-themed sci-fi appropriate for students?
What are examples of sci-fi books or short stories that have a mathematics theme? I'd like to have a pool of examples in mind that I could refer students to. The only example I've got in mind right ...
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Is the AC Method of Factoring polynomials more popular and used by teachers than others methods of factoring polynomials?
This is an example of the AC Method:
$ x^2 + 16x +63 $
(1) $x² + 7x$ (2) $9x + 63$
(1) $x(x + 7)$ (2) $9(x + 7)$
so we have:
$x(x + 7)+ 9(x + 7)$
(1) with (2) The Result is:
$ (x+9)(x+7) $
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Looking for a rigorous middle school self-study math course
My son is in 5th grade (US) and since he is doing remote learning, we have been doing a lot of topics in pre-algebra just using worksheets. I'd like to start him on a formal middle school curriculum, ...
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What is the motivation for teaching Factoring by Grouping?
This seems like such a niche trick to teach students when factoring polynomials. Like, the polynomials I've seen textbooks ask students to factor by grouping seem so cherry picked that I can't imagine ...
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Can we skip Newton's Method?
I am teaching an introductory calculus course for high school juniors and seniors. It is not formally described as an AP Calculus course, but it is supposed to map roughly onto Calculus AB.
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