Sentence examples for developmental math from inspiring English sources

Chief among these options is SAILS, a computer-enabled developmental math program for high school seniors.

"We gave them lecture notes and a textbook, and they 'Udacified' things, and wrote the script, which we edited," said Susan McClory, San Jose State's developmental math coordinator.

This project evaluates math options in Tennessee for high school seniors whose previous achievement in math would require them to take developmental math in college.

The grants are intended to encourage the development of MOOCs in introductory courses, like developmental math and writing, to see how they might be integrated into community colleges to bolster completion, and to develop a pathway for MOOC transfer credit.

Jack Rotman, a professor of mathematics at Lansing Community College and chair of the developmental mathematics committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, has started a blog reflecting the challenges of ensuring student success in developmental math.

More than 60percentt of all students entering community colleges must take what are called developmental math courses, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, but more than 70percentt of those students never complete the classes, leaving them unable to obtain their degrees.

This initiative addresses the problem of the extraordinarily high failure rates among the half-million community college students annually assigned to developmental (remedial) math instruction as a prerequisite to taking degree-level college courses.

"Many, many community college presidents will say that math developmental education is the most difficult problem they're facing," Dr. Bailey said.

Led by Melissa Libertus, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the study published online in a recent issue of Developmental Science indicates that math ability in preschool children is strongly linked to their inborn and primitive "number sense," called an approximate number system, or ANS.

"The majority of entering students do place at the developmental level in math and a much lower percentage in English development classes," said Read of Inver Hills.

Developmental biology team (one math and two biology faculty, two math and one biology students): Using neural networks to analyze microarray data to identify genes important for diapause of flies.