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November 11, 2015
The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on.
November 10, 2015
The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on.
November 10, 2015
Purveyors of the inquiry-based and student-centered math agenda, which has persisted for more than 20 years, argue traditionally taught math has never worked for the vast majority of the nation’s student population, and they say mental math is the key to
November 2, 2015
The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years.
August 11, 2015
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) decided recently to eliminate first-year algebra for 8th graders. Algebra will now be offered only in high school.
April 15, 2015
Today is April 15: Tax Day – the day many Americans account for a big chunk of their earnings going to state and federal governments – and the first year Obamacare is a part of filing a tax return.
November 12, 2014
I currently am on a second career after retirement—I teach math in middle school. During my last few years of work, I started taking courses in ed school at night.
October 20, 2014
During a course in math teaching methods I took in ed school, I watched a video of a teacher leading his students to do a variety of tasks, ostensibly to teach them about factoring trinomials, such as x2 + 5x + 6.
September 30, 2014
A Wall Street Journal opinion article drew considerable attention to Common Core (CC) math standards—particularly the sixth-grade standard for fractional division— in early August.
August 27, 2014
This article is the second in a series that provides alternate and common-sense interpretations of the Common Core math standards.
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