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Nov 16
Graphicacy
Good summary of what graphicacy is, especially early graphicacy in children.  Click to access espresso_22_early_graphicacy.pdf This definition of graphicacy does not seem to be comprehensive enough to include spatial sense, but is an important subset, or component of, spatial sense and visualization. This definition of graphicacy seems to emphasize data visualization. 
Nov 15
Two community colleges show how students can succeed without** remedial math courses
**Actually there is remediation, but it is just-in-time. There is corequisite support/remediation. This sounds promising. Students do not like (or, equivalently, are not motivated) to take a semester-long remediation course. Under this plan, the students may be taking a similar amount of math, but the (previous) pre-requisite is now a corequisite.
Sep 13
How to Graphically Interpret the Complex Roots of a Quadratic Equation
Very good stuff here. Nice mathematics, nice symmetry, nice visually! Nice paper with an explanation of what is going on by Carmen Melliger here. Good mathematics! Nice graphic by Shana McKay from Scaffolded Math. See also.
Mar 04
Websites for Spring 2019 – Math 304
Evan Wignall – https://etwignall98.weebly.com/ Will Kline – https://kline55.wordpress.com/
Aug 08
Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. (And by the way your son, too.)
Good opinion-editorial piece. I think it does deemphasize conceptual understanding problem-solving and may over-emphasize practice, but overall this is a good article. I like the analogy of doing math in playing a musical instrument. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/stem-girls-math-practice.html
May 01
Catalyzing Change
Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations Book released by NCTM in April 2018. See the page on this site.
Mar 06
Spring 2018 Websites
Here are the websites by students in Math 304 in the spring 2018 semester. Mia Calderone: https://macalderone.wordpress.com/ Jerry Morales: https://soccer4life8295.wixsite.com/jerrym Jordan Hughes: jhughes44.wordpress.com/ Logan Brown: https://mrbrownhomepage.wordpress.com/
Mar 02
Use the new TEP Handbook
Note for teacher education students at W.I.U. The TEP Handbook has been updated. There are numerous links still existing to the old handbook. You might use the link to the TEP Handbook at http://www.wiu.edu/coehs/cpep/ As of 2-28-18 the TEP Handbook was updated January 2018. In particular, when writing the reflective paper, we now have four …
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