Is 2/7 larger than 4/11? That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public ...
Alan Garfinkel, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains the practical uses of modeling to instructors from around the country. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Math professor Martin ...
For folks in the literacy world, the bitter fight over California’s math framework sounded eerily familiar. On one side, proponents of the framework argued that students need to learn to love math, ...
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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors
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Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...
We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...
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OPINION: We need more ‘math people’ in our country. Let’s boost learning beyond the traditional school day
As a teacher, I heard it all the time: “I’m not a math person.” I would be in line at the grocery store, wearing a math T-shirt one of my students got for me, and I’d hear it: “Algebra? Who needs it?” ...
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