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High School Academic and Pre-engineering Curricula

June 23, 2008

A recent curriculum content analysis finds that the Project Lead The Way curriculum addresses far fewer mathematic content and process standards when compared to academic curricula. It  also exhibits far fewer points of potential integration of mathematics knowledge than expected, given the call made in recent national policy reports and the Perkins Act. Researchers Mitchell Nathan, Natalie Tran, Allen Phelps, and Amy Prevost analyzed the mathematics topics presented in these curricula and how the topics are sequenced and presented to students. Their findings are presented this week at a meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education.