HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA*

On Exponentiation - A Solution to Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

Studies of Diagnosis and Remediation with High School Algebra Students

Despite extensive discussion in the literoture about the diagnosis and subsequent remediotion of students' errors, few studies have compared the effects of different styles of error-based remediotion. Swan (1983) found that a conflict approach (pointing out errors made by students and demonstrating their consequences) was more effective than simple reteaching, but Bunderson 8 Olsen (1983) found...

Teenagers with Down syndrome study algebra in High School.

This paper deals with the adaptation of an algebra curriculum for two students with Down syndrome who were included in High School. Since the kindergarten, this boy and girl have been fully included in general education classes. This paper examines the rationale for this choice on an algebra program. The adaptation of this program was easy because all that was required was to shorten it and do ...

School Algebra and the Computer

How are we to use the computer in the teaching and learning of algebra? In the longterm the new technology is introducing new possibilities that may radically change the algebra curriculum. However, in the short-term we already have the National Curriculum placing its template on the development of algebra in school. The recent regrouping of topics into five attainment targets has integrated nu...

High school employment , high school curriculum , and post - school wages

The direct, skill-enhancing effect of high school employment is difficult to identify because high school work effort is correlated with curricular choices, postsecondary schooling and work effort, and many other observed and unobserved factors. This study uses data for male, high school graduates to estimate a wage model in which detailed measures of high school coursework and post-school work...