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The Crisis We Face and How to Try to Deal with It
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Uhl, J. Jerry Woods, Debra J. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Math education in the United States is in crisis. Student performance and desire to learn is declining. Some groups feel that the cure is to drive math education back and increase rote memorization and teaching to the test. The fact is that the math taught 50 years ago will not prepare today's students for today's world. One crisis of American education is the dramatic drop out rate of high school students from college-intending mathematics programs. Typically a full half of a high school freshman class will drop out of the college-mathematics preparation sequence before their sophomore year. Half of the remaining students are likely to drop out by the next year; and half of those remaining students are likely out during the following year. Only about 12% of the students who started will actually complete the sequence. Math eduction has failed to capture the interests and imaginations of today's high school students. This is a crisis for students in the schools because math permeates more of university education and life outside the university than ever before. In almost every field of study, math is strikingly more important than it was even twenty years ago. Many fields of study place demands on math that were not even thought about twenty years ago. Today's culture is both math-needy and math-hungry. But school math is failing to keep up with modern demands. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 3 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1142/9789812776006_0001 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.worldscibooks.com/etextbook/6642/6642_chap01.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812776006_0001 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
