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Think Through Math is a web-based program that allows elementary aged students to practice and prepare for the often intense state math tests that they will endure in later years. At this critical age ...
Under Common Core, parents are likely to see some unfamiliar terms on their children’s elementary-school math homework. Here are some examples drawn from New York state’s math curriculum: –Grade 2 ...
FOR ONE school year, college students who had taken a problem-solving class taught by former Ateneo president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, SJ, and myself, volunteered to coach talented elementary and ...
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 ...
Your Dec. 1 article, “Questions Raised on Graduation Test,” noted that many school officials believe that the current proposed exam is too long and difficult. I support the idea that a high school ...
New research shows that if you want to be good at math, you have to practice all different kinds of mathematics. New research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows that if you ...