In a recent blog post, Kyle Pearce (@mathletepearce) raised the question “good at math or good at memorization?” Unlike most middle school math teachers, Kyle asks his students to wrestle with complex ...

The so-called constructivist math downplays the use of basic techniques, like long division, which proponents say dampen children's enthusiasm, and emphasizes underlying concepts, and students are ...

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The Board of Education has quietly overhauled the way math is taught at 628 schools over objections of befuddled parents and top mathematicians, who call the new curriculum dumbed-down “fuzzy” math.

‘IWALKED out of there, and I tell you, my head was spinning,” the distressed caller told me. “It was like a cult. It was like they were selling Amway or something.” Where had this caller been the ...

I have a child going into the first grade in Anchorage and I am worried about what is going to happen when he tangles with the school district's chosen math curriculum, Everyday Mathematics. I'm ...

Teaching mathematics has been my profession in New York City public schools since 1969, first at I.S. 201 in District 5, then at J.H.S. 17 in District 2, and since 1983, at Stuyvesant High School. I’m ...

Sally made 500 gingerbread men. She sold 3/4 of them and gave away 2/5 of the remainder. How many did she give away? This was one of the homework questions in Craig Parsley’s fifth-grade class. The ...