The Leading-to-Calculus Framework (LTCF) is a collection of math courses meant to prepare students for calculus. From its inception, however, scholars have marked out a number of problems with its approach, particularly for students of color: its content and activities are often too broad, its structure is too rigid, and it fails to regularly…

This paper reviews the literature on the intellectual abilities and performance of deaf learners within educational settings. The paper addresses such questions as whether deaf learners learn differently from hearing learners; whether deaf learners have the same intellectual capacity as hearing learners; how opinions have changed regarding the…

Fourteen high-intelligence and 13 low-intelligence first-year college students worked in a structured or unstructured simulation environment to learn correlational principles. Thinking-aloud protocols indicate that high-intelligence subjects exhibit a better working method than do low-intelligence subjects, and that working method is a strong…