Required Math Skills
Are there any high school math teachers - or, better yet, developers of high school math curricula - who read this blog? I’ve decided to take a break from my usual undirected griping about how woefully unprepared students are to do college math, and divert those energies into something more productive - a working list of what students should be learning in high school math classes in order to prepare them for college (or even, for what they are supposed to be learning later on in high school).
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In fact, I think that students often learn negative amounts of math in high school: in grade school, they learn how to perform basic mathematical operations and such, and by the time they’ve received their diplomas, they’ve been trained to leave those tasks to their calculators.
Check out the seven essential math skills that children must know to be prepared adequately for college math.
(Via Jenny D’s Carnival Roundup).
should be noted that those are absolute minimal skills, and a student would likely need much more in a math/science/technology field.
Comment by Jen — July 30, 2005 @ 5:00 am