If you’re the parent of an elementary school-age child, chances are good (OK, about one in ten, although actual numbers are hard to pin down) that you’ve encountered Everyday Math. Chances are ...

Newswise — Prof. Zalman Usiskin made an audacious promise in the mid-1980s while recruiting a high school math teacher to manage editorial content for the University of Chicago School Mathematics ...

On Doug Noon’s Borderland blog, high school teacher Karl Fisch defends the use of conceptually-oriented math programs like Everyday Math in elementary schools. In doing so, he makes a distinction ...

Say you are a fourth-grader and your teacher asks you to divide 406 by 7. If you go to a school that uses the Everyday Mathematics curriculum, the problem will first be put in terms that any ...

La Cañada Unified school board members recently adopted “Everyday Mathematics” curriculum for students in grades K-5, despite protestation from a group of parents claiming it lacks rigor and fails to ...

Kids often see math as an isolated activity. They might think of math as just counting, or adding, or something they do for 40 minutes a day at school. The truth is, math is important to so many ...

Math? Can I use it? Source: Roman Mager/Unsplash Parents and teachers have heard this question in many forums, “Will I use this math in “real” life?” This is a question that math teachers and parents ...

“I hate the Common Core,” the mother of two complained when I told her I write about education. “What, specifically, do you hate?” I asked. “The math. It makes no sense! I can’t help my kid with his ...

Mathematics is a universal language. Its omnipresence makes it an integral part of our life. Every single mathematical formula and equation has a reason as well as application that makes life more ...