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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched ...
Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...
“Well, that’s not how I learned it,” proclaimed the person sitting next to me. The comment is a familiar one for a math teacher, as I hear it all the time from students and family members. But on this ...
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 ...
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