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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst
Common Core-era rules that force kids to diagram their thought processes can make the equations a lot more confusing than they need to be.
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Let's Go Back to Grouping Students by Ability
Since the late 1960s, well-meaning educators have shied away from placing kids in "faster" and "slower" classes. Now that trend is reversing—and for good reason.
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A New Kind of Problem: The Common Core Math Standards
A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math.
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It's Not Just Writing: Math Needs a Revolution, Too
Today's fashion is to throw away the textbook and to teach kids to think like mathematicians. The problem? They're not learning how to do actual math.
