Curriculum quality must change in order for the depleted math profession to attract young scholars, workshop attendees agree |
"We're just not getting students into the pipeline," says Naomi Fisher, codirector of Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER), a four-year-old center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which sponsored the March gathering, entitled "Joint Mathematics Workshop on Changing the Culture: Education and the Research Community." The Oakland meeting was the center's eighth, with more planned.
"The number of students who say they're interested in mathematics is declining, and the half-life of mathematics students...
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