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The teaching experiment Integrated Course of Arithmetic and Algebra has been designed in response to the challenges that freshmen community college students experience while learning algebra. As the recent New York Times article “Is Algebra Necessary?” (July 28, 2012) demonstrates, the seriousness of the challenges is formidable, both at CUNY and nationwide.
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Czarnocha, B. (2016). Rate Teaching Sequence. In: Czarnocha, B., Baker, W., Dias, O., Prabhu, V. (eds) The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-549-4_27
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