Faced with thousands of juniors who have yet to pass the WASL math test a little more than a year from their graduation, Gov. Chris Gregoire and education leaders last week reached a compromise. If ...
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It is early on a chilly Saturday morning at the Russian School of Mathematicsin Newton, Mass., but 10-year-old Sebastien Sobeih does not seem to mind. He is already deeply engrossed in three hours of ...
A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...
Opinion

America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...
Math is a skill used every day — often without even realizing it. But, it took time for adults to grow the math skills that keep them on-time for meetings, able to make purchases, and ready to ...