The phrase "acquired math" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing the mathematics that one has learned or obtained over time, but it is not commonly phrased this way.
Example: "After years of study, I finally feel confident in my acquired math skills."
Alternatives: "learned mathematics" or "gained mathematical knowledge".
Lewis Hay, executive chair of NextEra Energy, based in Juno Beach, Florida, stated that young students often don't know what jobs a STEM education can lead to, and so acquiring math and science skills doesn't interest them.
A negative CUUI indicates that a country's educational system fails to fully utilise its students' capabilities to acquire math and science literacy in the development of problem solving.
Texas has had some success with that policy: more low-income minority children acquire basic math and reading skills there than before.
Two years ago, Amazon quietly acquired a relatively unknown math intervention tool called TenMarks.
We hypothesized that this "alternative" method of teaching proportional reasoning may be successful because of its non-traditional, multi-modal approach that makes the math skills acquired transparently useful (within the game immediately, and later within daily situations as discovered in discussions of abstraction bridges; Kroesbergen and Van Luit 2003; Moreno and Mayer 2007).
This is also an area that Amazon has been eyeing for while now: the company acquired TenMarks, an online math education startup, in 2013; continued to offer TenMarks' products; and then joined the U.S. government's Open Education initiative in 2015.
As early as second grade, children demonstrate the American cultural stereotype that math is for boys -- suggesting that gender stereotype is acquired early and influences emerging math self-concepts before there are actual differences in math achievement!
If this had been a multiple-choice physics test you failed to study for — yet were still able to pass, based on knowledge you acquired from an applied-math class taken the previous semester — no one would question your veracity.
We have extended this perspective by introducing Capability Under-Utilisation Indices for math and science to investigate the effectiveness with which knowledge and skills acquired in the context of math or science education are transferred into cross-curricular problem-solving competence.
This is good news for ensuring that more students, including more under-represented minorities, acquire the foundational math skills they need before college.
