Dr. Confrey presents at RUME in Raleigh
Dr. Jere Confrey will deliver a plenary session entitled "Steering a Course for Preparing Students for the Mathematical Sciences in the 21st Century” at the Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Meeting at the Raleigh Marriott on Friday, February 28, 2009, at 1:30-2:30.
This talk will report on efforts here in North Carolina to revise state standards around learning trajectories and to focus on preparing all students for the Mathematical Sciences. She will argue that the high school math wars are failing to serve the needs of the 21st Century and that it is time to focus on preparation for the Mathematical Sciences more broadly, and move away from the narrow preparation for calculus only that has been the foundation of advanced math in our high school curriculum. A strategy for doing so, practically and politically, is outlined.
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