The National Council of Teachers of Math issued an official statement about data science. It is a Joint Position of NCTM, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Statistical Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Computer Science Teachers Association. It is a short document, and you should read the whole thing,… Continue reading NCTM on Data Science
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Freakonomics Radio on Math Curriculum
Every now and then, an academic decides they’re qualified to fundamentally rethink math education, and to share their brilliant solution with the world. That is already problematic when the academic is a mathematician or a math education researcher, but it is even worse when it is someone whose only connection to K-12 math education is that… Continue reading Freakonomics Radio on Math Curriculum