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Meandering mutterings and musings about math by a concerned Connecticut parent.
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- National Math Advisory Panel - FINAL REPORT 2008
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- Highlights from TIMSS 2003
- OPEN LETTER TO US SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
- The Truth About Math Standards and Reform
- What Can Parents Do?
- 10 Myths about Math Ed
- What the US Can Learn from Singapore
- **Singapore Math PLACEMENT TESTS**
- TIMSS Tests Online -- Math and Science
- Practice Problems for the California Mathematics
- Thinking Blocks... great word problem practice!
- Let's Play Math
- NYC HOLD
- Weapons of Math Destruction
- The Math Page
- The Math Mojo Chronicles
- Illinois Loop
- Out in Left Field
- Instructivist
- After the Math Panel
- Kitchen Table Math, The Sequel
2 comments:
I hadn't heard of this work before. It should be broadcast or be availabe as streaming video.
A lot of focus as with Gates is on high schools. I tend to think that the major damage is done in elementary through middle school. That's where the focus should be. How can a student learn algebra if he still doesn't know math facts, fractions, percents, proportions and basic geometry?
Precisely.
I know our state just received a big fat grant to beef up math and science education. Guess where it's all going? The High Schools. For too many students, it's much too late by then.
The breakdown is happening at the elementary level and yet so little focus is placed on those crucial developmental years.
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