Here’s a shout out to fellow gray-hairs who learned math the “old-fashioned” way, by memorizing simple formulas along with facts about addition and multiplication. This technique is anathema in ...

Rapides Parish math teachers spent Monday sharing strategies and learning about the next module in a new curriculum adopted by the district this year. The professional development day had students at ...

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I am a bit troubled by this new column from state Superintendent Richard Woods in which he decries “funny math methods.” I have never understood the assumption that somehow, if parents in Georgia ...

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 3/20/2015, pg. A4) A story about math instruction misstated standardized test scores of a charter school. At KIPP Bay Area schools last school year, 79 percent of ...

Subtract within 1000 using various representations, strategies, and algorithms. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to find a mistake made in using an algorithm for addition and subtraction. Subtract ...