Rational Mathematics Education

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This blog has a series of posting discussing information about mathematics education. Each posting describes an article regarding current issues about mathematics education.

March 13th's posting is regarding an article titled "Mind the Gap" which discusses the fact that undergraduate calculus and advanced mathematics enrollments has dropped dropped from 10.5% in 1985 to 6.36% in 2005. In respsonse to these staggering numbers, a professor from Teikyo Post University argues that the reason for this is the poor teaching in K-12. The professor claims that since students are poorly taught in school K-12, they are coming into college failing their first math course, there for not enrolling in an higher level courses.

This blog is helpful to me as a new teacher because I was able to read about broader issues involving mathematics education. Other blogs that I have read only discussed activities and situations that could only be applied to the classroom directly. With this blog, and this post in particular, I was able to learn the importance of my teaching in the greater scope of mathematics education.