Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five stand-alone pre-calculus learning modules. The design and revision phases of this project occurred between the fall of 2007 and…

The aim of this unit is to assist teachers in the presentation of integers and the combining of like terms in algebra in a more interesting and meaningful way. This program was developed for use in mathematics classes, grades 7-12. The unit is a descriptive module on the teaching of integers using bingo chips to develop a concrete approach to…

Replication of the Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) in Ontario, Canada, is described and assessed. The curriculum and testing program covers numerical methods, geometry, and algebra. Whereas classical studies focused on mean scores of a system's students and on percentages of teachers for opportunity to learn (OTL), SIMS aggregates…