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Turning maths pupils into second world war codebreakers. Mission accomplished: teacher turned first officer Charlotte King explains how to send pupils on a codebreaking mission to learn about factors, multiples and the second world war.
Keeping it Safe and Quiet
Public Key Cryptography |
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Lesson Study Among Mathematics Educators
A group of mathematics educators worked together to implement the lesson study model as a professional development strategy while teaching their methods courses. This article describes the experiences of the group, including unique benefits and unpredictable challenges of forming a virtual faculty learning community.
Lesson Study: Enhancing Mathematics Teaching and Learning
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Musings and more about making changes in math education
The Mathematical Literacy for College Students (MLCS) course developed at Rockvalley College. |
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Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum (MAC3)
The goal of the MAC3 Project is to create a mathematically literate society that ensures a workforce equipped to compete in a technologically advanced global economy. |
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New Life for Developmental Mathematics: Symposium
The New Life project is grounded in our professional standards. These standards call for us to take a broad view, and not just fine-tune the curriculum we have inherited. |
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Math Pathway Symposium
The second Math Pathways symposium, held at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, welcomed Julie Phelps, of Valencia Community College in Florida to a day of math curricular and institutional redesign from local colleges like Pierce, Pasadena City College, College of the Canyons. Over one hundred people signed up for the sold out event to both hear Julie speak about her experiences in redesign at her own college as well as to see how local colleges are addressing student needs and success. |
Classroom Ideas That Work!
Reading Resources
Reading and Learning Strategies: Recommendations for the 21st Century
Finding practical ideas about college reading and learning strategy programs that have been drawn from theory and research is difficult for most veteran instructors, but is even more difficult for those instructors new to the field. |
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The Focal Point: Redesigning Developmental English Education
This report of the Developmental English Redesign Team, presents recommendations to redesign developmental reading and writing to improve student success, to implement more streamlined and efficient delivery methods, and to enhance student support services surrounding those delivery methods. |
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What Can We Learn From Developmental Reading Research?
The success of underprepared readers in college is directly and significantly related to taking and passing a reading skills course. |
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Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Reading
This report presents results from a rigorous random assignment study of a basic learning community program at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Bay, Florida. |
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Institution E: Basic and Developmental Reading
INSTITUTION E proposes to redesign its Basic and Developmental Reading course to improve both course quality and delivery cost-effectiveness. |
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Achieving the Dream Must Reads
There is a great deal of breaking research and new reports in the higher education reform space, and Achieving the Dream staff recommend the following as a short list of must-reads in 2012. These publications, all produced within the last 12 months, feature some of the most up-to-date research concerning community college student success and completion. |
Writing Resources
Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
Describes the rhetorical and 21st century skills as well as habits of mind and experiences that are critical for college success. Based in current research in writing and writing pedagogy, the Framework was written and reviewed by two- and four-year college and high school writing faculty nationwide and is endorsed by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Writing Project. |
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30 Ideas for Teaching Writing
The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced Writing Project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. |
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Accelerated Learning Project
The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP) at the Community College of Baltimore County. |
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Accelerating Achievement
On the “Accelerating Achievement” blog you’ll find posts about current news, learning, and research as well as highlights of the work that’s being done in DEI colleges and states. We’ll share our viewpoint on how this learning can be taken up on other campuses and states—and we hope you’ll share your perspective, too. |
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Writing to Read
A Carnegie Corporation report which finds that while reading and writing are closely connected, writing is an often-overlooked tool for improving reading skills and content learning. |
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Getting Results: A Professional Development Online Course
This multimedia resource for community college faculty will challenge your previous thinking about teaching and learning and give you the basic tools for effective classroom practice. The key theme of the course is to encourage you to focus on what the students will do and take responsibility for their success. |
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