RESOURCES
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Ep 15. Modern relevance in the math curriculum
with Brian Conrad
The transcript for this episode is here.
You can listen to the episode here: Chalk & Talk Podcast.
Brian Conrad’s public comments on the CMF
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Brian Conrad’s public comments on the CMF
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Article in The Atlantic
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California's Math Misadventure Is About to Go National by Brian Conrad
Articles and programs mentioned in the episode
Nova’s The Proof (Fermat’s Last Theorem)
Richard P. Feynman: Judging books by their covers
The Calculus Project by Adrian Mims
The Algebra Project by Bob Moses
Dallas ISD's Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in its Honors Classes
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Replacing the Calculus Track for Middletown Students Sparks Questions and a Petition from Parents
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Opinion: Middletown's Misguided Math Wars
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CMF and California State Standards
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California Mathematics Framework
UC Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) minutes
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The July BOARS minutes confirm that BOARS unanimously voted to revoke allowing data science courses to validate Algebra II.
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CSU Senate resolution
CSU Senate resolution January 19-20
The resolution from the California State University system faculty regarding the UCLA data science course (Introduction to Data Science).
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Open letters on the CMF
Open letter on K-12 mathematics (signed by over 1700 quantitative professionals)
Data science and the high school math curriculum (signed by almost 450 California STEM higher education faculty)
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On San Francisco's anti-acceleration policies
Inequity in Numbers - Call for an Investigation: The Reality Behind SFUSD's Self-Promoted Math Course Sequence (Families for San Francisco)
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SFUSD’s 10-year experiment in banning 8th-grade Algebra I and other anti-acceleration policies are now the subject of a lawsuit by parents. The following clip from the May 23, 2023 SFUSD Board meeting shows the superintendent acknowledging that their approach to math is not working. (Full video is here: SFUSD May 23 Meeting. This clip starts at 2:20:04.)
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Credit to Jazmin Boisclair for this helpful resource page.