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  2. Remedial education - Wikipedia

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    An example of a full sequence of math remedial courses for low-skill students might include: 1) pre-collegiate math, 2) basic algebra, and 3) intermediate algebra. [45] There are many questions about how this structure both benefits students by increasing their preparation and harms students by increasing the courses required and time needed to ...

  3. Mathematics education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, data provided by the University of Michigan registrar at this same time indicate that in collegiate mathematics courses at the University of Michigan, graduates of Core-Plus did as well as or better than graduates of a traditional mathematics curriculum, and students taking traditional courses were also placed in remedial mathematics ...

  4. Placement testing - Wikipedia

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    Placement exams or placement tests assess abilities in English, mathematics and reading; they may also be used in other disciplines such as foreign languages, computer and internet technologies, health and natural sciences. The goal is to offer low-scoring students remedial coursework (or other remediation) to prepare them for regular coursework.

  5. Law (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a law is a formula that is always true within a given context. [1] Laws describe a relationship , between two or more expressions or terms (which may contain variables ), usually using equality or inequality , [ 2 ] or between formulas themselves, for instance, in mathematical logic .

  6. Remedy - Wikipedia

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    Legal remedy, an action by a court of law to impose its will; Remedial education, the act or process of correcting a fault or resolving a deficiency: e.g., remediation of a learning disability; Remediation (Marxist theory), a theory of media proposed by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin; Remedy UK, a defunct pressure group representing junior ...

  7. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    Rigor is a cornerstone quality of mathematics, and can play an important role in preventing mathematics from degenerating into fallacies. well-behaved An object is well-behaved (in contrast with being Pathological ) if it satisfies certain prevailing regularity properties, or if it conforms to mathematical intuition (even though intuition can ...

  8. Associative property - Wikipedia

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    This is called the generalized associative law. The number of possible bracketings is just the Catalan number , C n {\displaystyle C_{n}} , for n operations on n+1 values. For instance, a product of 3 operations on 4 elements may be written (ignoring permutations of the arguments), in C 3 = 5 {\displaystyle C_{3}=5} possible ways:

  9. Reform mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of reform mathematics countered that research showed that correctly-applied reform math curricula taught students basic math skills at least as well as curricula used in traditional programs, and additionally that reform math curricula was a more effective tool for teaching students the underlying concepts. [13]