Tag: math education
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Four Ways State Education Leaders Can Improve Math Achievement
By Tim Hudson Even though reading curricula and achievement are currently the top educational priorities across much of the U.S., math achievement has declined worse than reading as a result of the pandemic. This ongoing math challenge is too broad and important to be addressed solely at the classroom, school, and district levels; state education leaders ... -
Why Today’s Math Textbooks Just Don’t Add Up
By Al Noyes Pick up a traditional high school mathematics textbook and you’ll see that it was authored by a number of collegiate luminaries, put through a series of pilot tests, and run through numerous developmental cycles over a period of time. After getting feedback and input from various schools and experts, the textbook ... -
Teaching Mathematics: Maybe it’s time to let the old ways die
By Rick Wunderlich Why do so many students leave school hating math, vowing never to take it again? Why do so many adults tell me they struggled with math and were so glad when “it was over?” Why do so many parents tell their children they can’t help them in math because they ...


