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America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.
One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...
Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...