If we asked you to find X, you'd probably think that's an easy one: It's right after W and just before Y. You'd fail math with an answer like that, but you'd hardly be alone. It appears many Americans can't find X in an algebraic equation. A Harvard study says the U.S. lags dozens of other countries in math. Why do we struggle so much? And what are educators here doing to change the trend?
The quote above is from the October 2nd post on IdeaStream titled, "The Trouble with Math". In that post, the guests, including the current NCTM president Linda Gojak, mathematics educators Christopher Butler and John Holcomb, and the Museum of Mathematics director Glen Whitney discuss just that: why do people have such trouble with math and, perhaps more importantly, what can we do about it? I LOVED this! Listen to it here:
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Author: Dr. Diana S. Perdue