"We are avoiding rote memorization of math facts and focusing on the underlying concepts that are the foundation of math.
Students studying in microbial biology will have a solid foundation of math, chemistry, physics, statistics, and biology prior to beginning their upper division coursework.
The idea for the NGSS began in 2009, when a commission formed by the Carnegie Foundation concluded that "the nation's capacity to innovate for economic growth and the ability of American workers to thrive in the modern workforce depend on a broad foundation of math and science learning" (NGSS 2013).
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The math committee, creating a model curriculum for the state's students that would challenge even the most gifted, included rarefied concepts like matrices and algorithms, as well as foundations of high school math like solving algebraic equations and reading graphs.
F.A. Grünbaum, L. Velázquez, The quantum walk of F. Riesz, Foundations of computational mathematics, Budapest 2011, 93-112, London Math.
This showed their superior understanding of the "cardinal principle" of mathematics, essential to learning higher math, and corroborated the power of parent talk in providing the foundation for math skills.
The "standard model" of the history of science locates its birth around 600 B.C. in ancient Greece, where the dramatis personae typically include Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus, Aristotle and other sages, who laid the modern foundation for math and the sciences.
