A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...
An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...
Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...
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I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Some parents and teachers in Minnesota, awaiting the release of recommendations for teaching mathematics, are urging schools to retreat from what is known as integrated or reform math. ...