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Andrea Arnold – PRIMUS, 2024
Sonia Kovalevsky Days (SK Days) are nationally-held outreach events that are commonly organized by local chapters of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics. The AWM Student Chapter at Worcester Polytechnic Institute hosted virtual renditions of SK Day for middle school girls…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Outreach Programs, Middle School Students, Females
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Jones, Matthew G.; Lanaghan, Sharon – PRIMUS, 2021
Nationwide, many students fail to complete the key mathematics courses that are required for most STEM majors, including Precalculus. This paper describes the rationale, implementation, and impact of the redesign of Precalculus at one regional west coast institution. Prior to the redesign, pass rates in Precalculus were modest (75.8% of all…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Students, Calculus
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Goyer, Alysia; Lynch, Alison; Wand, Jeffrey – PRIMUS, 2021
With the goal of improving student success, the chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system issued an executive order that required all CSU campuses to eliminate remedial math courses as of Fall 2018 and place all first-year students into appropriate General Education (GE) mathematics/quantitative reasoning courses. The Mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, College Mathematics, College Freshmen