It’s time for Americans to overcome their fear of math, science
In a rousing address, a university president—who is also a mathematician—urged participants of the annual Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigators conference
this week to rethink their approaches to teaching math and science in order to raise the competence of all Americans in these subjects.
“Our challenge, colleagues, is to help Americans get over their fear of math and science,” said Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), who recently led the National Academies of Science committee that wrote on expanding science and technology opportunities for minorities.
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