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A Common-Sense Approach to Common Core Math, Part IV: Making Connections, One Concept at a Time

During a course in math teaching methods I took in ed school, I watched a video of a teacher leading his students to do a variety of tasks, ostensibly to teach them about factoring trinomials, such as ...
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A Common-Sense Approach to Common Core Math, Part III: Drawing Diagrams for Dividing Fractions

A Wall Street Journal opinion article drew considerable attention to Common Core (CC) math standards—particularly the sixth-grade standard for fractional division— in early August. In it, math ...
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The best math learning material

Learning and teaching math comes with a unique set of challenges. To help your children acquire the knowledge base they need to stay on track with the curriculum, try math learning materials. Math ...
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OPINION: Everyone can be a ‘math person,’ but first, we have to make math instruction more inclusive

There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...