High Schools in England began to teach computing long before the advent of the personal computer and the graphical user interface made it possible to teach aspects of information technology skills to nonspecialists. We demonstrate that early high school computing was highly consistent with academic and professional practice. This consistency was eroded from the mid-1980s when the English school...

Research to identify validated instructional approaches to teach math to students with LD and those at risk for failure in both core and supplemental instructional settings is necessary to assist teachers in closing the achievement gaps that exist across the country. The concrete-to-representational-to-abstract instructional sequence (CRA) has been identified through the literature as a promisi...

Improving mathematical competency and problem-solving skills in undergraduate nursing students has been an enduring challenge for nurse educators. A number of teaching strategies have been used to address this problem with varying degrees of success. This paper discusses a literature review which examined undergraduate nursing student challenges to learning math, methods used to teach math and ...

Data security is vital to the world we live in, and the foundation that secure communication is built upon is cryptography. Cryptography is a course that is regularly offered at colleges and universities. In our experience, computer science students find that understanding the sophisticated mathematics behind the crypto-systems is a daunting task, while math majors often get lost in the details...

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