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Blog: Rx for Data Science Education Debates: More Light and Less Heat

This is the story of how math courses taken by fewer than 1 percent of applicants to the University of California played a dominant role in…

Jul 25, 2023

Blog: Rx for Data Science Education Debates: More Light and Less Heat

Jul 25, 2023

Blog: Math and Mental Health: Tackling Anxiety and Burnout

Math anxiety and burnout are bearing down on high school students in a post-pandemic academic landscape. And math classes’ lack of…

Jul 25, 2023

Blog: Math and Mental Health: Tackling Anxiety and Burnout

Jul 25, 2023

Blog: What is the Goal of Requiring Undergraduates to Take Math?

About 50 years ago when university math chairs were surveyed, only 10 percent thought a math course should be a college graduation…

Jul 25, 2023

Blog: What is the Goal of Requiring Undergraduates to Take Math?

Jul 25, 2023

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

Recent debates about high school math courses have highlighted starkly different opinions about these courses’ role in preparing students…

Mar 29, 2023

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

Mar 29, 2023

Let’s Streamline Transfer Paths Without Sacrificing 21st Century Math

Interdisciplinary innovation is redesigning college math courses, with modernized quantitative reasoning options, both for students…

Jan 26, 2023

Let’s Streamline Transfer Paths Without Sacrificing 21st Century Math

Jan 26, 2023

The Role of Math in Creating an Equal Citizenry | Just Equations

This month’s blog is written by our program associate, Katrina Goto, and has been republished here with her permission.

Dec 15, 2022

The Role of Math in Creating an Equal Citizenry | Just Equations

Dec 15, 2022

Doubling Down on Math Preparation is the Right Move for CSU

What a difference a pandemic makes. The latest illustration comes in California State University’s renewed focus on high school math…

Nov 16, 2022

Doubling Down on Math Preparation is the Right Move for CSU

Nov 16, 2022

Published in
Age of Awareness

Are Positive Attitudes Key to Deeper Math Learning?

Debates over math education too often focus solely on course content or-even worse-superficial questions about course titles, at the…

Oct 25, 2022

Are Positive Attitudes Key to Deeper Math Learning?

Oct 25, 2022

The Problem With Dismissing Data Science Education Because High Schools Offer Statistics

Originally published on August 23, 2022. Posted on behalf of author Melodie Baker.

Sep 21, 2022

The Problem With Dismissing Data Science Education Because High Schools Offer Statistics

Sep 21, 2022

The Problem With Saying High School Math Shouldn’t Change

Originally published on August 16, 2022. Posted on behalf of author Marcelo Almora Rios.

Sep 21, 2022

The Problem With Saying High School Math Shouldn’t Change

Sep 21, 2022

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Data Science 4 Everyone

The Problem With Saying High School Teachers Can’t Teach Data Science

Originally published on August 10, 2022. Posted on behalf of author Shakiyya Bland.

Sep 21, 2022

The Problem With Saying High School Teachers Can’t Teach Data Science

Sep 21, 2022

Published in
Data Science 4 Everyone

The Problem With Saying Data Science Education Isn’t Rigorous

Originally published on August 4, 2022, by Pamela Burdman

Sep 21, 2022

The Problem With Saying Data Science Education Isn’t Rigorous

Sep 21, 2022

Published in
Data Science 4 Everyone

What Some Critiques of Data Science Education Get Wrong

Over the next month, we will be breaking down what some arguments against high school data science are missing.

Jul 27, 2022

What Some Critiques of Data Science Education Get Wrong

Jul 27, 2022

Published in
Age of Awareness

Building Consensus Around Foundational Mathematics

Policy decisions about mathematics education need to be rooted in the purposes of teaching math. The reason math plays a central role in…

Jun 29, 2022

Building Consensus Around Foundational Mathematics

Jun 29, 2022

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Math Simplified

More Thoughts on Updating Math Education for the 21st Century

I have written about the importance of diversifying the STEM fields and ensuring that all students, particularly those from historically…

May 26, 2022

More Thoughts on Updating Math Education for the 21st Century

May 26, 2022

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The Faculty

STEM Opportunities in California’s New Era of Student Success

As initiatives to expand college math course offerings beyond the traditional algebra-intensive pathway have gained attention over the past…

Apr 25, 2022

STEM Opportunities in California’s New Era of Student Success

Apr 25, 2022

Published in
Age of Awareness

Designing Effective Math Learning-With or Without the Math Department

Fifty years ago, when university mathematics department chairs were surveyed about whether math should be a graduation requirement, only 15…

Mar 24, 2022

Designing Effective Math Learning-With or Without the Math Department

Mar 24, 2022

College Admissions Can Support Innovations in Math Education — Just Equations

Although today’s technology-rich environment has changed the way math is used in many fields , college admission still relies heavily on…

Feb 9, 2022

College Admissions Can Support Innovations in Math Education — Just Equations

Feb 9, 2022

The Invisible Problem with College Precalculus

College Calculus courses are widely-known as “weed-out” courses, and literature reviewed in Just Equations’ recent report-by myself…

Jan 20, 2022

The Invisible Problem with College Precalculus

Jan 20, 2022

Changing the Role of College Calculus as a Gatekeeper to STEM — Just Equations

College calculus courses have long been viewed as weed-out courses. Unfortunately, that reputation is all too accurate, as we found in…

Dec 7, 2021

Changing the Role of College Calculus as a Gatekeeper to STEM — Just Equations

Dec 7, 2021

Pamela Burdman

Pamela Burdman

is an expert on college access, readiness, and success and founder of Just Equations — a project to re-conceptualize the role of mathematics in education equity

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