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SEAS Associate Dean for Academic Programs Robert D. Howe stressed that some professors were especially concerned that students concentrating in engineering or applied mathematics typically take CS50 for concentration credit. In order for the course to count for an engineering or applied math requirement, it must be taken for a grade, which would potentially force these students to be among a small minority of graded students in a primarily sat/unsat class...
...meeting—the first this year featuring outside experts—included presentations from math education professionals followed by a discussion among Committee members...
Patricia M. Nolan ’80 raised concerns parents have raised about the math curricula at the schools...
Mary Eich, the K-8 mathematics coordinator at the Newton Public Schools, said that the “most difficult issue” facing math education at public schools is how to create such divisions...
Committee members also discussed the need for more creativity in teaching math to children. Nat Stahl—representing the nonprofit math education organization, The Math Project—emphasized the need for math “to be a discussion of ideas rather than development of skills...