Mathematics -- Global Approach

Spring
2000
Resolution Number
09.07
 
Assigned to
Curriculum Committee
Category
Curriculum
Status
Completed
Status Report

Found not feasible.

Whereas ethnomathematics or multicultural, global mathematics has been recognized by conference nationally, internationally, and statewide, and

Whereas mathematics remains a gatekeeper/gateway course for many of our students, and

Whereas mathematics classes have a high dropout or attrition rate (some say 30% actually finish the classes), and

Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has certainly always supported a variety of intellectual pursuits and student success is a key component of Academic Senate activity,

Resolved that the Academic Senate support efforts to improve the retention rate in mathematics and to study the effects of mathematics as a gatekeeper/gateway course, and

Resolved that the Academic Senate support research into a variety of approaches to mathematics, including a multicultural, global approach, such as ethnomathematics.