The data from annual surveys carried out by the American Mathematical Society shows the same picture year after year: the percentage of females in different categories decreases as the category level rises. For example, here is the data for 2006:
Category
Percentage of Women
Graduating Math Majors
41
PhDs Granted
32
Fresh PhD hires in academic jobs
27
Full-time Faculty
27
Full-time [...]
The need to learn from the practices of highly effective teachers to help more students excel is one of the great challenges elementary educators face. Research has shown the effectiveness of formative assessment and formative instructional practices – it’s through this research that providing differentiated instruction has become the expectation in classrooms.
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In booth 2311, yesterday was a good 1st day at ASCD! Here, Casey speaks with an academic dean from a DreamBox customer school. They’re very pleased with our new Administrator Dashboard — where they can easily see the progress and proficiency of students for every school, filter by date range, see which classes are fully [...]
Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Wild About Math bloggers 3 18 11 March 25th , 2011 by Sol I hope you all had a great Pi Day I learned from the 360 Blog that Brainfreeze Puzzles is running a Pi Day contest . No , you didn’t miss the deadline . Entries are due on June 1, 2011. Check it out Vi Hart joins the Tau Day bandwagon with a great video , Pi is still Wrong http : www.youtube.com watch v=jG7vhMMXagQ Antonio Cangiano has a review of You Can Count on Monsters at Math-blog.com Here’s a brief description of the book from Publisher’s : Weekly This compact , innovative book counts to 100 using prime numbers represented as monsters , each with identifying characteristics two resembles a bee with two buggy eyes , and three is
Today, DreamBox Learning launched the Administrator Dashboard for school and district leaders to have an easy to use view of the use, progress, and proficiency of students for every school in a District. Click here to take a look at the new reports available to school and district leaders.
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A crystal clear explanation of Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Milnor by Marianne Freiberger Submitted by mf344 on March 23, 2011 in Abel prize differential topology dynamical system Julia set knot knot theory Mandelbrot set topology The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Willard Milnor of Stony Brook University , New York for pioneering discoveries in topology , geometry and algebra The Able Prize is one of the most important international prizes in mathematics . It's awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and carries a prize money of around 650,000. John Milnor Announcing this year's prize , the Abel Committee noted , Milnor is a wonderfully gifted expositor of sophisticated mathematics . He
Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : A Schock Prize for an enormous theorem Submitted by mf344 on March 22, 2011 in group theory schock prize The Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics 2011 has this week been awarded to Michael Aschbacher for his fundamental contributions to one of the largest mathematical projects ever , the classification of finite simple groups Michael Aschbacher Finite simple groups are the basic building blocks of the mathematical description of symmetry . At over 10,000 pages , spread across 500 or so journal articles , by over 100 different authors from around the world , the proof of the classification was without precedent , and must be counted the longest in history . You can find out more in the
Solving quadratic equations by factoring, completing the square, or using the quadratic formula.
Are you attending ASCD 2011 next week (March 26th-28th) in San Francisco, CA? If so, make sure you visit DreamBox Learning in booth 2311! Join us in our booth for a daily schedule of presentations focusing on key educator challenges:
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10:00am
Finding Funding for Instructional Technology
11:00am
Leveraging Real-Time Reporting for Insight Into Math Proficiency
12:00pm
Achieving Better, Faster Math Proficiency [...]
Home About Math Books Table of Contents Write for us Applied Math Essential Math History Math Education Math News Math Websites Software Suggested Reading Tutorial Unsolved Problems Teaching Prime Numbers to Children Posted by Antonio Cangiano in Essential Math Math Education Suggested Reading on March 16th , 2011 4 responses The other day I received a math book that’s geared towards children . It’s called You Can Count On Monsters USA UK Canada by Professor Richard Evan Schwartz . This mathematics book is unconventional in the sense that it’s mostly comprised of drawings , with relatively few words or formulas . It’s square shaped , enjoyably colorful , and printed on stark black paper which really makes the illustrations . pop Though it might surprise some to know , this is one of thefactoring using the quadratic formula. Lesson is crystal clear and straightforwardSolve using the quadratic formula. Lesson is crystal clear and straightforwardSolve by completing the square is the goal of thi lesson. Explanations are crystal clear
Home About Math Books Table of Contents Write for us Applied Math Essential Math History Math Education Math News Math Websites Software Suggested Reading Tutorial Unsolved Problems Drexel University launches Financial Education in the Math Classroom site Posted by Antonio Cangiano in Math Education Math Websites on March 7th , 2011 one response The following is a guest post by Stephen Weimar Director of the Math Forum and Valerie Klein Professional Collaboration Leader from Drexel . University Recent economic hardships have demonstrated that the understanding of financial and mathematical basics is critical in keeping this country afloat . Too many people learn their financial lessons the hard way as adults , which raises the question How can we effectively prepare our children to become