Linky, Linky!

To round out our week-long focus on developmental math, we’ve collected some additional reading. Enjoy!

• From Jobs for the Future, with support from MetLife Foundation, a new brief featuring three community colleges that have invested in developmental math improvements and have seen better results for their students: Innovations in Developmental Math: Community Colleges Enhance Support for Nontraditional Students.
• An Education Week article on math anxiety, with neuroscience!
• Also from Education Week, a blog interview with the founder of Mathalicious, an organization that “builds high-quality, standards-based math lessons designed to transform how students learn math, and how teachers teach it.” Though Mathalicious is kind of a silly name and geared toward middle-school math instruction, the focus on problem-solving over procedure could apply to the community college classroom.
• Developmental Mathematics Revival compares mathematics instruction to bowling—you can learn a lot from gutter balls!
• Let’s not forget the Community College Research Center’s Assessment of Evidence series. Working Paper No. 27 fits right in this week: Reforming Mathematics Classroom Pedagogy: Evidence-Based Findings and Recommendations for the Developmental Math Classroom. You can read the full paper or a brief that summarizes the findings.