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The meeting—the first this year featuring outside experts—included presentations from math education professionals followed by a discussion among Committee members.
“Certain students are going to take more [from the curriculum] than others,” said Suzanne Chapin, who teaches at Boston University’s School of Education.
Mary Eich, the K-8 mathematics coordinator at the Newton Public Schools, said that the “most difficult issue” facing math education at public schools is how to create such divisions.
Committee members also discussed the need for more creativity in teaching math to children. Nat Stahl—representing the nonprofit math education organization, The Math Project—emphasized the need for math “to be a discussion of ideas rather than development of skills.?...
McCarty—who has worked in the Office of Undergraduate Education since 2007—says he has noticed a decrease in undergraduate complaints about their TFs’ language skills, and a rise in CUE guide scores for foreign TFs.