New York school districts will soon begin revamping math instruction under a new law aimed at improving test scores — but the ...

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The changes are being driven by students’ lagging performance on international tests and mathematicians’ warnings that more than a decade of so-called reform math — critics call it fuzzy math — has ...

Defending reform math Several recent letter writers have asked some interesting questions about reform math. Here are some facts: Reform math is based on how math is taught in other countries that are ...

The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...

The reforms didn’t even advance the fashionable goal of attracting girls to math: There were fewer women studying college math in 2004 than in 1989 when the Reform Math standards were published. Fewer ...

I consider myself a fairly advanced mathematics student, but I must say, a recurring problem in the Beaverton School District's "reform" math is lack of challenge ("X plus why equals division," Jan 12 ...

The Seattle School Board is poised to make its most important academic decision in decades: whether to remain on the reform math bandwagon. We urge members to look beneath the glittery wrapping of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of ...