Gifted and Talented: With Others? Separately? Mathematical Analysis of the Problem

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

7-2020

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-73

Abstract

Crudely speaking, there are two main suggestions about teaching gifted and talented student: we can move them to a separate class section, or we can mix them with other students. Both options have pluses and minuses. In this paper, we formulate this problem in precise terms, we solve the corresponding mathematical optimization problem, and we come up with a somewhat unexpected optimal solution: mixing, but with an unusual twist.