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How can a church or other non-academic institution find and hire math teachers?
We'd like to set up a remedial math program in our church. To do so, we would need to hire at least two teachers who could design courses in middle school and high school math, and teach them.
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1st time math teacher 1st test feedback appreciated
I'm not a math teacher but I've stepped into the role to assist a small private school who lost their math teacher during the holidays (I'm a mechanical engineer by trade). The course is Algebra 1 (...
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Basic skill requirement suspension
Oregon appears to have suspended the "basic skills" requirement for graduation; see this. What will be the effect of this on the mathematical proficiency of the graduating class?
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Remote Teaching by Video Conferencing
I am in my early 70's and licensed to teach 8-12 math in Texas. I have an advanced degree in the same area. I used to teach in high school decades ago but have since quit because the student's ...
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What is Algebra 1 and 2 as it is in US highschool education?
I am a pre-university student who wants to help students with Algebra 1 and 2 in high school. I am curious to how the curriculum was built and what the goal of teaching both algebra 1 and 2 might be. ...
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What age student should be able to answer this question?
I was having a conversation about math education in the USA. Would an excellent middle school student, high school student, or college freshman be able to answer this simple question:
Exercise 0 If $...
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math syllabus US education system 1-12th Grade
Please share links to websites / pdf files containing syllabus in subject mathematics in US education system Grades 1-12.
Thank you.
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How can I improve my Retake Policy?
I teach Pre-Calculus at a public high school in the United States. This school year, I allowed my students to retake any assessment regardless of how they performed on their first attempt. However, ...
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Should proofs include a third “context” column?
Proofs, or any mathematical derivation, appearing in any real setting, such as a book or textbook or talk, or even when we're teaching it in class, includes a great deal of surrounding explanation. ...
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Why are math test scores dropping in America? Lack of student responsibility movement [closed]
Someone asked me this question today. Why do you honestly believe that high school math test scores in America (particularly the United States) are low compared to other countries? I thought about ...
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Is $\overline{AB} \cong \overline{BA}$ usually taught as an instance of the symmetric property of congruence?
I have been tutoring a wide range of math subjects for many years. Recently, I began tutoring a girl in high school geometry (in California, for context). This semester of the course is starting with ...
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Typical structure for walk-in math tutoring in US high schools?
I'm now semi-retired after a career teaching physics (and occasionally math) at a community college, and am looking for opportunities to volunteer with disadvantaged youth. During my college career, I ...
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Is the AMC 10/12 Test the Difference Maker for Top Schools? What do Colleges Look for?
The AMC 10/12 test is a test used in a math competition for high school students.
I have a few students that know LaTeX who are very young and are extremely advanced for their age in high school. As a ...
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When are students taught implicit and parametric representations of curves?
Do students learn implicit equations (such as $x^2+y^2-r^2 = 0$)
and parametric equations (e.g., $x=a t^2,\;y= 2 a t$)
in a first course in algebra,
which in the US would be early high school, maybe ...
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Is There Such Thing as Reaching Half a Standard?
I like the Common Core State Standards for Math as they focus on objectives that students need to reach. However, some standards have way too many parts for them.
For instance, the standard CCSS.MATH....
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Courses equivalent to College Algebra in other countries?
In USA, there is a course called College Algebra and a course description may look like the following:
This course provides students an opportunity to gain algebraic knowledge needed in ...
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What math courses should I take in order to become a secondary math educator?
Seeing as this is the math educator site, perhaps someone can help me out:
I am looking to become a math teacher, but I am having a hard time figuring out which math courses I need to be taking. ...
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An alternative to "two column" geometry proofs
I'm a high school teacher in New York State (US), starting in on my first year of teaching Geometry. One of the things that really intrigues me is that the Regents exam (the state-mandated final exam)...
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When (and why) did geometric means of more than two numbers exit the secondary curriculum?
In contemporary US secondary mathematics textbooks, geometric means occasionally make a brief appearance. For example:
In Geometry, students learn that when an altitude is dropped to the hypotenuse ...
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why don't we do labs in/for math?
(this is in the US and at a high school level)
why don't we dedicate a day of the week each week to do a lab for math for exploration? I mean we already do that for Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry ...
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Reference for study about good teachers in a US state
Several years ago I have read about a study in a US state where standard test scores were used to identify teachers whose students consistently improved far above the average and then film and analyse ...
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As a Secondary public Math educator in the USA are there vacation days?
My girlfriend is soon to become HS or secondary education public school math teacher in the USA. I was reading some HS contracts and I dont see any "vacation days".
At best I only saw 2 "personal" ...
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What is the best way to teach compound interest in high school?
It seems that a lot of high school seniors contemplating college are too naive about borrowing and repaying a loan to tell whether a given loan choice is rational or irrational. Or so we are being ...
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How does the workload of a high-school mathematics teacher compare to a university-level instructor?
This question could be very broad, and so I'd like to make it more specific.
In the United States, mathematics educators generally work in secondary education or college education (elementary school ...
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How is teaching calculus in high school different from teaching calculus in college?
I've taught calculus in college for five years, and it's always interesting to see students coming in who already had calculus in high school. Many of them do very well, and don't even seem like they ...
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How are secondary-education mathematics jobs advertised in the United States?
A large portion of 4-year university mathematics jobs are advertised on mathjobs.org.
Is there a similar, centralized location for secondary education mathematics jobs? If not, what are the standard ...
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Why does high school teaching in the USA require a teaching certificate while college/university teaching does not?
Original post: I have a math PhD. In the United States, I can teach at a 4-year university or a community college without any additional training. However, to teach mathematics in high-school I must ...
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When did the American school system's progression of math classes take its current form?
In the United States, secondary education students generally progress through pre-algebra courses, then algebra, Euclidean geometry, more algebra/trigonometry, then calculus or statistics.
I am ...
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