Math Education
Measuring Up, SAT Scores, and Coding Interviews
Introduction Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us is a 2008 book by Professor Daniel Koretz of Harvard. Koretz, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at…
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Review of Falling Behind? Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent
Falling Behind? Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent by Michael S. Teitelbaum Princeton University Press March 30, 2014 Introduction Falling Behind? is a recent (March…
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How to Learn Math
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. “Well, I never!” said he. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in…
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Battle of the Nerds: AP Calculus Versus AP Computer Science
A Geek Gap? Once again America is in danger from a looming under-supply of nerds. The latest figures from the College Board show that not a single girl…
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STEM Shortages, Purple Squirrels, and Leprechauns
This is the third in a series of articles that started with The Mathematics of the Ph.D. Glut. This article discusses claims of STEM worker shortages in private…
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The Ph.D. Glut is Bad for the United States
This is a followup to my previous article The Mathematics of the Ph.D. Glut. To recap, yes there is a Ph.D. glut in nearly all STEM (Science, Technology,…
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The Mathematics of the Ph.D. Glut
I recently had a conversation at a get-together with someone whose sister had just started a Ph.D. program in biology. I discussed some of the unpleasant realities of…
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A Big List of Interesting Mathematics Books Released in 2011
The following is a list of 46 interesting math books that were released in 2011. As some of you know, I run a service called Any New Books?,…
History
Eberhardt Rechtin and the Barrier Course: A Case Study in Math Education
At present, at any rate, very little evidence exists that great mathematicians and calculating prodigies have been endowed with an exceptional neurobiological structure. Like the rest of us,…
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When Will I Use Math?
There is a new online initiative called We Use Math, which is meant to address and answer one of the most common questions that high school students have:…
Applied Math
Knowledge Is Power… Maybe
At least since Sputnik in 1957, various tests and reports such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have asserted that students in the United…
General
Debating Deliberate Practice
Outliers: The Story of Success (USA | UK | CANADA) Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown, and Company, New York, 2008 309 pages Outliers is the 2008 bestseller written by…