The Math inquiries Project is very interested in the pre-algebra experience among both boys and girls. A study by the University of Chicago, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on girls in elementary school. It researches the origins of the misperception among girls that boys are better at math. Where does it come from and when does it start?
We've got a fun holiday math challenge for students! After you complete your solution we encourage you to share it in the MathMirror forum. There are many patterns and ways to solve this problem. Try your own and then compare it to other students answers.
We hope you like our new, exciting look, and find the content easy to access and use. Most importantly we have more videos from our invaluable and penetrating focus groups with students, parents and teachers. We invite you to watch eighth graders talking about algebra, their classroom experiences, projects, and much more.
As MiP knows from its focus groups, eighth grade students in California are thinking about their future careers. Here's a report that gives them something new to think about. Being good at math, studying hard, and planning for their futures can lead to jobs in the growing fields of statistical analysis and data interpretation, which in turn “opens new worlds of discovery."
She's done it again! The well-known author of Math Doesn't Suck has written a second book that moves the middle school student even closer to a full-fledged Algebra class. She writes with her great flair and understanding of students at this age, with the prime objective of clearing up the most confusing pre-algebra questions. Her confidence that a student can achieve a "warm and fuzzy" feeling about algebra is on every page.
Welcome to the MathMirror website. We want MathMirror to help teens learn to love algebra, to understand it, and have no fears about it. And we want our energies at the Math inquiries Project® to be part of this happening. Our goal is to present new and emerging ideas about math and algebra, along with our invaluable and penetrating focus group findings and videos with eighth grade students, parents and teachers.
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