The "M" in STEM

Buckle up for some real talk about solutions to our Math
challenges that might sound simple in a lot of cases, but they
certainly aren't obvious. If they were, we would've figured out a
long time ago that, for example, "school math and real math" as
Marvin puts it during this interview, should not and cannot be
such very different things.


In this episode, Marc interviews researchers from Education
Development Center's Center for Children and
Technology and Bank Street College of Education, who
are collaborating on an effort funded by the National Science
Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S.
Dept. of Department of Education, to help better equip educators
supporting the wide variety of learners who populate the
classrooms of American schools. Their program, Math For All,
is developing digital resources to show general and special
education teachers how to provide high-quality, standards-based
math education to all students, including those with
disabilities.


Links from this episode:


Math For All: http://mathforall.cct.edc.org/

Pew Research, U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags
that of their peers in many other countries:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/

Marvin Cohen, Nesta Marshall, Babette Moeller:
http://mathforall.cct.edc.org/about-math-for-all/

STEM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics



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