Prepared for College-Level Math Courses?

July 6th, 2009

There has been a long debate about the best way to teach math, and very recent discussion about high schools preparing college-ready students. Both issues were raised by a recent article in the American Educational Research Journal.
In the early 1990’s the National Science Foundation funded the creation of 13 mathematics programs that were mostly problem [...]

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