In my experience, one of the reasons students may be getting low score on the question to calculate a derivative using definition is the “heavy” algebra involved. Subtracting rational expressions, and then […]

I’ve been to MoMath with my daughter and her friends, in mid-February.

They liked it, sure. There were not that many “problem-solving in progress” issues, just one or two. As far as I know, the organizers […]

Professor Ocken,

I have been wondering the same thing as well. Since CUNY educates the majority of NYC high school graduates, it would be natural for the faculty to have some input into what the NYC students […]

Jonas,

The most cynical of the answers would be that out students are NOT MEANT to think… Quite a few of the commenters to the posts regarding testing on NYTimes SchoolBook and Insideschools websites (these […]