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...discipline as well as the professor’s personal preferences. Humanities and social science courses, however, are more likely than others to require only a final paper rather than an exam. According to Bret J. Benesh, a preceptor for Mathematics 1a, “Introduction to Calculus,” said it would be hard to ask students to write a final paper rather than take an exam in math. “A lot of people [view] math as a series of facts to be learned” and therefore would consider a paper about math...
...better way of keeping advanced students stimulated and helping struggling students retain what they learn than if they tried to absorb the lessons during disconnected summer sessions. "There's not this thing where you just have to go along with everybody else," says Ismail, who took geometry and calculus a semester early and, having exhausted the math curriculum, will study college calculus at a community college in spring. "Here, you can always find the pace that fits...
...raised some money, created a nonprofit and--voil!--Curriki.org made its debut January 2006, and has been growing fast. Some 450 courses are in the works, and about 3,000 people have joined as members. McNealy reports that a teenager in Kuwait has already completed the introductory physics and calculus classes in 18 days...
...suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the engineering-technology department functions like an engineering firm, with teachers as project managers, a Ford Motor Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams. The principles of calculus, physics, chemistry and engineering are taught through activities that fill the hallways with a cacophony of nailing, sawing and chattering. The result: the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think strategically and solve problems...
...their own pace. Once students complete the packets, they turn it in for a grade and, depending on that grade, students get packets of the same level or of the next level in the Kumon curriculum. Kumon covers everything from basic algebra all the way up to differential calculus...