Do timed tests cause math anxiety?
One third of students end up in remedial math in college and “the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low,” writes Jo Boaler, a Stanford math education professor, in Ed Week. She blames...
View ArticleCalculators: Useful or not?
In response to Konstantin Kakaes’ Why Johnny Can’t Learn Without a Calculator, math teacher Paul J. Karafiol argues that Calculators in the classroom are useful. Teaching math requires actually...
View ArticleMath needs a revolution too
Math Needs a Revolution, Too, writes Barry Garelick in response to The Atlantic story, The Writing Revolution. He first encountered reform math when his daughter was in second grade. . . ....
View ArticleNew math: Concepts precede skills
Under new math standards, students will be asked to explain why procedures work before they’ve mastered the procedures, writes Barry Garelick in The Atlantic. Under the Common Core Standards, students...
View ArticleSocial studies follies
There are no Common Core social studies standards, nor even a framework for standards, but there is a “vision” of a “framework for inquiry,” reports Ed Week. Welcome to the social studies follies,...
View ArticleThe math problem: All rote, no reasoning
Community college students placed in remedial math — a large majority — may have memorized a few procedures, but they don’t have a clue what they’re doing, according to researchers. In one study, few...
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Same old new math
Common Core’s Newer Math is a lot like like the old new math, writes David G. Bonagura Jr., a teacher and writer, in National Review Online. In 1961, New Math “was supposed to transform mathematics...
View ArticleThe right answer does matter
Math Curmudgeon is listing “things we need you to stop saying.” Number 1: “The right answer isn’t important. It’s knowing what you’re doing.” The right answer is the whole point of doing the problem …...
View Article2+2= deep learning
In The School of Deep Understanding, Diana Senechal satirizes the gee-whiz discovery of “deep learning” in Common Core math classrooms. The teacher, Gideon Pelous, buzzed about the room like a...
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Subtraction made complicated
One page in his daughter’s third-grade math book explains the “counting up” method of subtraction, writes Erick Erickson, editor in chief of RedState.com. It’s one of four methods taught. The...
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