November 2019 archive

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. 

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.