... Lower East Side, leaps into the fray of the discussion raging on the math wars over at the NYC Ed News listserve, where some trashing of constructivist education has ... mask or draw a face, I think there are many ways to learn about and interact with the world, and that includes math. Like anything else, when a methodology is taught well and deeply and consistently it can work quite well, including ...

... 4? I have no clue how a student is supposed to answer that, and neither does TH. He can get the math part right, but struggles with this open-ended, nonsensical ... Liz Ditz tweeted a link to an op-ed piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer in which the expert educator ... grade, mathematicians have estimated, students of reform math can be up to two years behind their non-reform peers.It's like the bad ...

... we'd all be a lot more comfortable with. No matter where you are, what you're doing, who you're with, or what time it is, there is math all around you! It's just waiting to be noticed... Here is a prior post and an article for further reading: Finding the Math in Every Day The Early Ed Watch Blog's Make Way for Morning Math: A ...

... unsupported, pedagogical and organizational methods that essentially dumb down math content.” Stotsky suggests emulating high- ... evidence supporting the teaching philosophy and practices that math educators have promoted in their ed-school courses and embedded in ... 10 of 28 students passed the first quiz. Also check out Math Matters by the Hechinger Institute. While written as a guide for ...

This op-ed from the Baltimore Sun elegantly describes my thoughts about how math education has gone awry. It is almost like math is a subject we don't ... health curriculum seems to hit the right balance. Conversely, we don't teach students math they could use in their daily life, and which could be mastered at a developmentally-appropriate age. Statistics and money management should replace ...

A "two-tier" bar for passing the state math assessment? End-of-course assessments for science? A delay of both math and science graduation requirements? ... ;s presentation materials, click here.) "It's time to set our graduation bar for math at the right level," wrote Dorn in an op-ed piece for The Seattle Times. Gov. Gregoire disagrees. According to the Associated Press, & ...