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Guy, G. Michael; Cornick, Jonathan; Puri, Karan – PRIMUS, 2016
Many colleges are finding that the use of acceleration in developmental education is a promising direction for improved student progress toward a degree or certificate. Acceleration has been defined in the literature as the reorganization of curricula and instruction in ways that facilitate the completion of educational requirements in an…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Algebra, Problem Solving, Remedial Mathematics
Mesa, Vilma; Suh, Heejoo; Blake, Tyler; Whittemore, Timothy – PRIMUS, 2012
We present an analysis of several characteristics of examples in 10 college algebra textbooks used in community colleges or 4-year institutions. We analyzed the examples along four dimensions: cognitive demand, the responses expected, the use of representations, and the strategies available for verifying the correctness of the solutions. We found…
Descriptors: Algebra, Textbooks, Problem Solving, Graphing Calculators

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